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Railway Progress in New Zealand
General Manager'S Message
Financial Improvement.

It has been pleasing both to the public and the Railways staff to find from the returns recently published that the Railway net revenue for the year so far is #35,000 higher than for the corresponding four months of last financial year.

These results have been achieved largely by an improvement on the revenue side, and it is hoped that this tendency will be maintained. Careful handling on the expenditure side has also assisted. Whether the revenue improvement will continue cannot be forecast with any degree of certainty, but there are now probably more grounds for confidence in this respect. The efforts of the staff to curtail expenditure and their activities in furthering the development of business for the Department, have contributed to the improvement.

Any true conception of a railwayman's work includes an understanding by him of the importance of his work to the Dominion. In his work he has opportunities for interesting association with various classes of the community. He has opportunities for contacts with businesses and personal friends outside the service, and these contacts furnish him with opportunities to state the case for the Railways in a very effective, though not necessarily an official manner. Members of the service have every reason to have wellfounded confidence in the carrying capacity of the Railways, in their safety, their comfort and their general efficiency. Having such confidence they are able to take opportunities, apart from their daily work, to spread the news and thus secure business for the Railways. This is a part of the effort which those in charge of men in the various sections of the service can use if their work is conducted in such a way as to produce the spirit of co-operation.

General Manager.