SLEEPING-GARS HERE AND,ELSE' WHERE.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2723, 18 March 1916, Page 7

SLEEPING-GARS HERE AND,ELSE' WHERE.

Sir,—l was surprised to rend the article "Ex-Wellington Man's Comparison" in your paper .this morning. It is easy to sco his travels are confined to Now Zealand and South Africa, and 116 more. I myself have, and win prove that I have, travelled on almost every railway where sleeping-cars are placed, and I can only say, in fairness to the •Now Zealand railways, that are run by white labour, the sleeping-cars in this country are able to show points to sev--1 oral, others, including South Africa, wliero you pay 2s. 6u. for a bed, and when morning conies you go into a miserable first-class carriage. In New Zealand you can stop in your sloeping-car nil day, which is a big item. Then take the fare frgpi Cape lown to Johannesburg; it is double tie fare, according to the mileage, compared with New Zealand. In South Africa it costs you 2s. to get your boots cleaned, if a sleep-ing-car passenger, and another shilling for Bhaving water. Here it is all thrown inland with far better attention; clean linen, and a' far better class of men to look after you and attend to your wants. Not like the black labour of South Africa, who would do nothing without being paid for it._ I am a constant traveller on sleeping-cars here, and I am sure others will join with _ me that the New Zealand railway sleepingcars are clean, that you receivo good attention, and are far more safe 111 more ways than, one than in South African railways.—l am, etc., CONSTANT TRAVELLER, - March 16.