Progressive Development.

The best that has been gleaned from abroad by officers who have returned after a world-wide survey of Railway structural and operating conditions will be incorporated in the future working of the Department.

From time to time other officers will be sent to other countries to ensure that the Department may be kept advised by first-hand information of any new details in railway management or equipment which may be of assistance in improving operations on our own system. The whole matter of definite advance in the internal working of our transportation business is indissolubly intertwined with the question of