“Done More Than Any Man.”

The people of the Wairoa and East Coast districts were to have the immediate benefit of those experiments and their service would be the most modern to be found anywhere. Sleepers would be added as soon as they could be produced, he promised the gathering, and everything that the Government, the Minister, and the department could do to give good service, with speed and comfort and safety, would be done.

“I want to introduce to those of you who do not already know him, the General Manager of our Railways Department,” Mr. Sullivan added, calling forward on the dais Mr. G. H. Mackley. “He is the man who has done more than any other individual towards bringing the rail-car to its present stage of successful development in New Zealand.”

The credit given by the Minister to his principal executive officer was warmly endorsed, Mr. Mackley being the recipient of enthusiastic applause from the large audience.

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