NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11481, 14 January 1903, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS.

TO THK EDITOB OF THE PRESS. DmA jji your' issue ;.of:,irfiSf]erdait-i-*-- J *eß

I*- Aj- ,i,,, -Vuckland Notes." ■ rV^j 1 " e bow how unfavourably the '**■*£ ar"»ornearly double that of I ** SrVarly five timee a» many v> the Auckland lm'.-s. a X " r 3E t^^She^r; ■ filter for Railways' *™<-™*f *L\--d to Pailiamtnt. and whii" the\ «" 1 « -to". •«■ *" "•■: ■s Si«»«f^»'»'« iu,,k!!U(luld,,6: -' MilM. servers. Tonr.epe. R'^nut , ieUwdlißM.. SB 1.205,000 *2«,JW C SS b ! n ' oW?O 1133 3.640,000 1,905,155 £936,671 sJ'thut while Mr Vaile ounplains that ' £,outheni !in« huv... : Jm<».-t f, lU r tunes t nwnbw of ongiiH-. three times as zLj and nearly five times ac ■ tr*g«une M the Auckland line-, th, don figures prove that they ar.>. by work Lj entitl.-d to moro tluir. they have got. - tetiwv Lave ..-aiii.d more than four times ii mudi moiKT, and carried ov.-r three too® as roany i*i.s«tngere, and nearly nvo tines as much tonnage. Again, the statements show that wln.t' tie Auckland lin<-« earn only £626 p≥l mile open, every mite o£ the southern lines turn £829! Thi/3 shows that the Government i.« doJus a wise thing in •.-stending th« C-an-twbßiT-Otagu lines as much as pi«il<le, • (nd Bnleaa Mr Vaile can prow that th« - portage of engines and vehicles actually M&&A& people from travelling or forwarda goods over the Auckland lines, his • tomplaJnt faJLs to the ground. I may add that in charging off the cost \ d additional rolling etock to ''loan," that ii to "capital ,, account, the railway aufchoptk* are in line with the best systems in ' " 4fae world.—Yours, etc., '-, "P. D. ' : ' Jaatuuy 9th, 1903.