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Taranaki Daily News, 11 January 1916, Page 5

It is stated on reliable authority flint the big railway engines imported from the United States by the Xew Zealand Government last year have done more than come up to expectations. At the time of the order being placed with the Baldwin Locomotive Company, some protests were made in Parliament against the giving of orders for railway engines to countries not part of the British Empire, hut the fact was 'shown that the engines were urgently required, and that Great Britain could not supply them as quickly as the United States could. The locomotives are now at work on the lines of thi3 Dominion, and their hauling capacity is exciting the admiration- of experts. A" remarkably fine effprt orejf hilly country was recorded a few weeks ago. when one of the engines hauled 278 tons from Wellington to I'almcrstpn North (eighty-one miles), without having te- wViieiigii, either water or coal