RAILWAY WAGONS.
REUBVTNG SHORTAGE SOON. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Tn the House of Representatives this afternoon, Mr. R. W. Smith (Waimarino) asked what was being done to relieve the shortage of railway trucks. Mr. Massey said trucks were Being distributed to various parts of the Dominion according to the urgency of the goods to be handled. Ho repeated the statement made some weeks ago that a contract had been let to a British firm for the construction jof 2500 trucks. In addition to this they were ■inviting tenders for the construction of a thousand trucks in New Zealand, and a number were also being built in th» railway workshops, so that he hoped the shortage would soon be overtaken. In this connection, he also 'desired to say that a cont/ract for twenty-five engines had been let in Britain, and it had been thought desirable to increase that number to 45, which would considerably relieve the situation.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 November 1920, Page 5
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158RAILWAY WAGONS. Taranaki Daily News, 4 November 1920, Page 5
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