REMOVAL OF RAILS
PREVENTING DETERIORATION.
WELLINGTON, January 14
Referring to a statement from Gisborne to-day that gangs of men were engaged in pulling up rails that had taken weeks to lay down, the act-ing-Prime Minister (the Hon. E. A. Ransom) stated to-day that naturally a certain number of the rails would have to be lifted again in order to preserve them. Ajs there had been a sudden cessation of construction on the line, there would be a certain length of the work over which service rails only would ibe running, and there would also be a certain length of permanent way without ballast. The engineers had reported that- it would be cheaper to lift these rails again and take measures to preserve them than it would be to leave them to deteriorate. In the stoppage of any work, there was always a certain amount of clearing up to be done, and the Government was making sure that ther e would he no wastage through deterioration,
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1931, Page 2
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165REMOVAL OF RAILS Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1931, Page 2
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