RAILWAYS LOSING £3000 A DAY.

Otaki Mail, 5 July 1922, Page 2

RAILWAYS LOSING £3OOO A DAY.

" We are losing £3OOO a 'lay. ami until 'lie earning power of it-.- ra,i •.:>;■■: improves we cannot be i;xp<jcted ■';■■■■■ tend if.- -f rvice-," declared Hon '■ H Guthrie, Minister for Rnilwuv . ; " tfc; Hou-e yestrrduy, when hu wu- a-i.-'-\')r improved services on the We!!ir.z-ton-Manuwatu section. Mr W. H. Pieid remarked that lb. proposed commercial agent was eag'..'!y looked forward to in hi- district it the hop* that they would then obtair. such improvement- as an earlici ir-'«-in the morning into Wellington and ■■•'- extension of thv suburban area to i's'-

kakariki. The Aliniator lor Railways, aft..; :-■ ferrirtg to the" financial position •■; '■■' railway.- as indicated above, add' - "" the proposed earlier train had bw-r •.:■ dei consideration for twelve montii--but 'he Department considered i! woiH not pfy axle grease. There however, be some mean", of giving »- . earlier train from Otaki. NPJW RAILWAY POL* 1 The Minister tor Railway, annosiced to the House the Government 'i ■'- tention to appoint, one officer ic <»'■- Island as ■■■ personal rexiresenta'iv' '■'- the General Manager of Railway. ■■'-'■ , will be in touch with C'hai*ber= '■'- . Commerce and other railway a-i-'= '-'■ investigate the problem- ol the tra— : j adjust difficulties and to furthei tsrtate tbi* busrness operations. A Boar* comprising the heads of traffic, locoiy tive and maintenance branches o: '■'• t Department had been set up to *-•■'•■ with routine questions, thus re! the General Manager of matter- •*-' i prevented hits devoting his. attest/--to wider problems of railway adt'-S-** tration.