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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 11 (June 1, 1930)

External Co-operation

External Co-operation.

In their relationship with the outside public they had endeavoured to merit their co-operation. His presence at the meeting was an illustration, if he might put it, of the policy in endeavouring to make the utmost possible contact with those who were sufficiently interested in the railway problem of the country to want to make contact with them. In order to carry out that policy it was necessary that he, as the executive head, should move freely about the country. He had endeavoured to do so, and believed that the fact that he had done so had been helpful to a great many earnest thinkers on the railway problem. It had certainly been helpful to him, because even criticism represented a point of view, and inasmuch as the capacity of all to know the facts at first hand had a definite limitation, it was only by a constant contact with people and exchange of ideas that satisfactory progress could be achieved.

The Department's Lake Steamer Service The dining saloon of the P.S. “Mountaineer,” one of the Railway Department's fleet of steamers on Lake Wakatipu, South Island, New Zealand.

The Department's Lake Steamer Service
The dining saloon of the P.S. “Mountaineer,” one of the Railway Department's fleet of steamers on Lake Wakatipu, South Island, New Zealand.