A BAD RAILWAY YEAR
NEW SOUTH WALES REPORT. (Rec. August 19, 7.35 p.m.) Sydney, August 19. The Railways Report stresses the necessity of resuming constructional work on tlii'. city railway, suspended sinco June of last year. It says: "Within a very short period the present facilities will absolutely fail to deal with tho city's requirements." The report shows that tho increases in the wages sheet for tho year totalled .£81,534, as the result of various industrial awards. Tho Chief Commissioner, in reviewing tho position of tho railways, sounded a serious note of warning. On top of the increased expenditure there was a decreasing production sinco 1914. The tonnage handled on the railways had gone backwards. The population had increased, but the production per head had fallen.—Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 277, 19 August 1919, Page 7
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127A BAD RAILWAY YEAR Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 277, 19 August 1919, Page 7
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