UNIFORMITY NEEDED
Australian Railway Gauges DRAWBACK TO PROGRESS "Australia is a wonderful country with great possibilities—all it lacks is population,” remarked Mr. G. M. Wilson, late superintendent of motive power for the Canadian National Railways, who arrived at Wellington by the Marama from Sydney yesterday. Mr. Wilson is accompanied by his wife, and they intend to spend about six weeks visiting various parts of both the North and South Islands. They left Canada in November last, and for some weeks past have been in Australia, where they attended tlie Melbourne Centenary celebrations. “It seems a very great drawback to the progress of the country,” Mr. Wilson said, when invited to comment on the difference that exists in the railway gauges in the various Australian States. To have to tranship from one railway to another at the border between States, he said, was inconvenient to passengers, and certainly it must be very expensive so far as freight was concerned. To him. Australia seemed very much behind in not having a uniform gauge.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 106, 29 January 1935, Page 10
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171UNIFORMITY NEEDED Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 106, 29 January 1935, Page 10
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