NEW RAILWAY ENGINES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XL, Issue 12541, 12 May 1915, Page 4

NEW RAILWAY ENGINES.

'Per' Press Association-. Auckland,- May 11., • The 10 first-class Baldwin railway locomotives which. were ordered by the New" 'Zealand Government in January from Messrs Burnham. "Williams, and Co. of Philadelphia, are on board the steamev-fov-e-T-ta-y. which arrived at Auckland fovet week, -and which continued- -her- -voyage to-. "Wellington today, ..., ..... , ... ri Ther -3fiM»t<H- of -Kailways (thc.Jiou. AV H. Herries) pointed out, to-day that the contract for the manufacture of the engines was "completed wrthm the stipulated time.- but their arrival, m the Doniinibh'was delayed in the hist- place owintr tothe delay in obtaining shii>p m^.space; i :and'bv'the''protracted toy. a<'o ot the-Invertay. The engines will be fitted' iip'at the Petone Workshops, under the superintendence of an expert who has. been; lenff or the purpose, and who arrived in New Zealand some weeks ;i"o! The" engines, which are costing *g9oc>-each "will be distributed throughout the". North Island line,, as circumstances, require, j