RAILWAY SERVICES
OIL-BURNING ENGINES i SOUTH ISLAND REQUEST Daily Times Special Service INVERCARGILL, Dec. 4. “The time has arrived when oil could be used in railway locomotives and coal conserved for gasworks and domestic purposes,” said Mr T. Anderson, Mayor of Port Chalmers, at the annual conference of the South Island Local Bodies’ Association today. Mr Anderson was speaking in support of the following remit from the Port Chalmers Borough Council:— “ That the Minister of Railways be asked to make arrangements for the early introduction of oil-burning locomotives on the South Island lines.” He said that the Minister had sidestepped the railcar question but he could not see that the request for oilburning locomotives could be reasonably refused. They had been introduced in the North Island. “The South Island has coal and the North Island has not, and that may affect the whole position,” said Mr J. Boomer, Mayor of Green Island. Another members pointed out that in England and other countries oil was being extracted from coal. “I think that method could be examined,” he added. The remit was carried.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26636, 5 December 1947, Page 4
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