NORTH V. SOUTH.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1080, 20 March 1911, Page 6

NORTH V. SOUTH.

— [To,the Kditor-1 Sir,—Regarding your comparisons of profits North v. South Island railways in your sub-leader to-day, I.should like to direct your . attention to a. factor which you have omitted to take into account, and that is while the South has to look to itself' for freights, (practically 110 North Island goods are carried on tho southern railways), tho North to a very largo extent.(more than SO per cent.) looks to the South for its freight. What would the Northern returns bo if there was no South Island c,oal, grain, flour, aiid potatoes to carry? Why, tho Northern railways would not pay axle grease. It ill becomes the North to say the Southern railways arc dependent on them;—l am, etc., TIMARUYIAN. March 10, 1911. [Our correspondent wo suspect has drawn on his imagination for his estimates. In any case, whatever the figures might bo it would not affect, our contention that tho North offers the best field for railway enterprise, and its profits are being utilised to make up the losses oil the favoured Southern system.]