RIMUTAKA AND MANAWATU LINES.
DIVERTING SOME OF THE GOODS TRAFFIC. STATEMENT BY HON. J. MILLAR. By Telegraph —Press Association. ASHBURTON, February 19. Speaking to a "Guardian" reporter with reference to the increasing earnings of the working railways" Mr Millar, Minister for Railways, said that the purchase of the Manawatu line by the State would effect a material reduction in the cost of haulage. As.soon as the necessary crossings and sidings could be completed on it, all the goods traffic from north of Eketahuna to Wellington would go via the Manawatu line, thereby saving the heavy cost of haulage over the Rimutaka incline. It was eventually intended to use the Rimutaka line for through passenger traffic, and for Wairarapa goods traffic only. "Ail goods for above Eketahuna, or perhaps Pahiatua," he concluded, "will be via Manawatu, as the haulage amounts to nearly one shilling per ton less than if they went over Rimutaka."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3119, 20 February 1909, Page 6
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152RIMUTAKA AND MANAWATU LINES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3119, 20 February 1909, Page 6
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