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RAILWAY MATTERS

STATEMENT BY MY STERLING. QUESTION OF BRANCH LINES. ' (Per Press Association — Copyright.) AUCKLAND, July 14: ’ Addressing -the Chamber of Oommerce tfeday on the'’transportritioii' rif the Railways Board, ‘Mr H. H. Stififl-,: ing said: “It may not be far distant when ' the waste due to the working of many of the Dominion’s harbours must be resolutely tackled. Many have been ribrstrutted at A. tremendous cost- to the country, arid the remit, •in - many cases, has' beeri to provide competition with th'e railways, but the limit of the Domiriiriii’A' 7 capacity to afford such, waste has been reached. There must be some co-ordinating authority \vhioh would act before tho expenditure of public money was made in’ctrievable:. Such planning and coordination N was not on]v sound in itself, but essentia! to tho solution of the transport problem. Referring to branch railways. Mr Sterling said that, if a district was giving the whole of its. business to the railways, and was progressing iso tlmt the existing deficit on ’the working, of its branch dailwayis might be expected to disappear, the ll the Board would he pnepnred to continue that line.

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Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1932, Page 6

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RAILWAY MATTERS Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1932, Page 6

RAILWAY MATTERS Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1932, Page 6

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