RAILWAY MANAGEMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1699, 29 July 1875, Page 2

RAILWAY MANAGEMENT.

To the Editor of the Evening .Star,

Sik, —I positively wish the Auckland and Mercer railway had never come into existence, giving rise as it has to so many exhibitions of bitterness and bad taste. lam an old superannuated railway man, and as such I love to hear the whistle of the locomotive and linger about the station. I am very often poking about in a quiet way, and probably know as much of the ins and outs of the line as most people. I think, sir, and I am probably as well able to judge as most, that the institution, taking all things into consideration, is admirably managed. I know that it is very strictly managed. I cannot but think that if people would lay their complaints before the management in Auckland instead of rushing into print and maligning the hardest worked and worst paid class of officials in the colony, they would get speedy redress. I feel sure that Mr McDonald and Mr Lloyd would be glad if people would report to them any laches or incivility on the part of any of the officials, and I also feel sure that instant redress would be in any case it would be by far the manlier oouise to adopt, instead of making sweeping and ignorant assertions against the management. I have little patience with people who parade their grievances in the papers because a ticket-clerk happens to charge threepence too much, or a much - worked gooda-clerk, in the hurry of despatching some hundreds of packages of goods, happens to make some slight error—forsooth, its the management. Let these grumblers occupy the position for a week, and I fancy they would be sadder and wiser men, and more charitable.—Yours, &c, VERITAS.—[We quite agree with our correspondent that complaints against the railway oificials are for the most part trivial, and should be reported to the manager l-ather than to the press. The rottenness of the concern is one of system, which the hardworking and underpaid officers of the line suffer quite as much from as the public do.—Ed. E.S.]