The following is the text of a letter of appreciation addressed to the General Manager of Railways, Mr. H. H. Sterling, by the Secretary to the Royal Commission on Railways (Mr. F. K. Mackay), upon the conclusion of the Commission's work of investigation into the working of the various branches of the Railways Department.

I have been directed by the Royal Commission on Railways to extend to you as General Manager of Railways its thanks for the valuable and ever ready assistance which you rendered to the Commission during its investigations into matters connected with the Department. More particularly the members of the Commission desire me to place on record their appreciation of the prompt and thorough manner in which you personally, and also the various members of your staff, responded to their many requests for statistical and other information.

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