The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 10 (May 1, 1929.)
Helping Ourselves
Helping Ourselves.
The New Zealand Railways are a Government Department, and therefore all profits go towards the improvement and progress of our country. Thus by travelling and transporting entirely through the railways we are helping ourselves.
To-day the Department is working under the universal handicap of financial stress, and as a result it has been necessary to minimise the constructional work of the railways. Certain lines lie unfinished waiting for better times. With a little capital these lines might be turned into healthy profit-producing channels. There is one source from which this capital can be obtained; the whole-hearted patronage of the New Zealand Railways by the people.