RAILWAY GOODS FACILITIES.
NEW PLYMOUTH’S NEEDS. EXPEDITING IMPROVEMENTS. URGED BY MEMBER FOR DISTRICT. (By Wire. —Our Parliamentary Reporter.) Wellington, Last Night. While the Railway Estimates were under discussion Mr. S. G. Smith said he understood the department had under consideration a very comprehensive scheme for improving and extending the facilities for handling goods at New Plymouth. Even if a commencement were made at once it would be a considerable time before this programme could be fully carried out. The present position wan unfair to the people of Taranaki, and doubly unfair to the railway staff, because it was impossible for the staff to handle goods as expeditiously as was desired. He was aware the department was most anxious to improve the facilities at New Plymouth, and he realised the difficulties were very great. He wished to know, however, if preparations for the improvements had been advanced to any extent. Mr. Smith also mentioned, the present inconvenience of shipping horses to and from the port of New Plymouth. Horses arriving at present, he said, had to be walked almost three miles into New Plymouth to be loaded into horse boxes, and horses coming from the country in horse boxes for shipment had to be unloaded at New Plymouth and walked to the port. He suggested that it might be possible to construct, very cheaply, a loading bank at the breakwater. He said, in conclusion, that the new timetable had given almost universal satisfaction in the district.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 February 1922, Page 4
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245RAILWAY GOODS FACILITIES. Taranaki Daily News, 4 February 1922, Page 4
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