FUTURE OF RAILWAYS
GENERAL MANAGER CONFIDENT (By Telegraph—Special to "Tho Mail") AUCKLAND, 22nd July. "I am confident the railways are once more coming into their own," said •Mr H. H. Sterling, General Manager of the Railways, in an address at the Commercial Travellers' Club on Saturday night. "I do not say that in antagonism to other forms of transport, but I do feel that the position of the railways in this, as in many other countries, has been largely subject to misunderstanding." Mr Sterling said that -while the railway accounts had shown an improvement this year, he did not think they should be judged entirely by that standard. Ho was inclined rather to judge thd effectiveness of the system by the measure of satisfaction it gave to the pf.ople. In that respect, he considered, an advance had been made during the year. Service to the public could not be shown in terms of money. The department was now operating , under a new _ administrative policy, and Mr Sterling appealed for a. chance for the new system to prove itself. The railways were a national institution, and, as such, had to operate for the benefit of the country. This was the policy j he always followed.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 23 July 1929, Page 4
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