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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 14, Issue 5 (August 1, 1939)

New Zealand Talent

New Zealand Talent.

The assertion that New Zealanders were too prone to under-value the talent in their midst, while accepting an outsider at his face value—particularly if he happened to have “letters after his name”—was made by the Hon. R. Semple.

Disclosing that the cost of building the line to Wairoa from Napier had been £2,595,000, the Minister stated that in the years since the Labour Government placed the control of public works in his hands, many records had been made in carrying out different types of work.

Several of these records were made between Napier and Wairoa, the Minister said, specifying the fabrication of the Mohaka viaduct as one job in which New Zealand engineering skill and New Zealand adaptability had proved equal to, if not better than, the best to be found elsewhere in the world.

The function in which they were taking part, said the Minister, was a memorable and historical one, memorable because it brought to fruition the dream of many of those alive today, and many of those who had passed on; and historical because it marked a milestone in the development of transportation in the Dominion.