“If We Stand Together We Will Win.”

Proposing the toast of “The Minister and Management,” Mr. J. J. McAloon said that though Mr. Veitch had risen to Ministerial rank from the Department, in bad times, his training as a railwayman would help him to see things from the railway point of view. He hoped that the railways would bring prosperity to the country. In their General Manager, born and bred in New Zealand, they had one who understood. The railways were not built to be a paying concern, but to tap the wealth in which the country abounded. They had helped in the past to make the country's wealth available to its inhabitants, but that was lost sight of largely to-day.