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MR. H. H. STERLING TRAM DAYS NUMBERED (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. On his return today from Australia, Mr. H. H. Sterling, former General Manager of New Zealand Railways, said that conditions there were very prosperous. The development of local industry was making itself felt and Australia had taken on a definite economic nationhood. The most radical change on the immediate horizon in connection with the city traffic in Sydney was that it was fairly universally accepted that trams had to disappear from the city streets. Underground transport was being developed, particularly by the construction of a Circular Quay loop to the city railway. This would materially ease the surface congestion of railways there. The State railways I had had a good year and would show j a surplus.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 134, 8 June 1937, Page 10
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