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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 6 (October 1, 1929)

The Railways and Industry

The Railways and Industry.

Speaking at the recent annual reunion of the Chief Accountant's Branch of the New Zealand Railways, the Assistant-General Manager of Railways, Mr. M. Dennehy, said he considered it safe to say that without the railways, modern industry could not have attained its present high standard. The railways, more than any other factor, by cheapening transportation, had been responsible for the great industrial revolution of the last fifty years. In New Zealand the railways had been responsible for geographical divisions of labour which could not otherwise have taken place. They enabled the coal mines to be worked, the timber industry to be developed, stock to be brought to the markets and to the freezing works, and, particularly in the early days in Canterbury, wheat to be carried to the ships.

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