The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1885. Official Stupidity

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 29, 18 August 1885, Page 2

The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1885. Official Stupidity

On the 10th instant, in accordance with a resolution passed by the committee of management of the Rangitikei, Oroua, and Manawatu Poultry Show, the Secretary, Mr E. Goodbehere, wrote to the District Manager of the Railway, asking the Department to issue cheap return fares to Feilding on the day of the exhibition. In reply the following letter was received : — " Wanganui, 11th August. "E. Goodbehere, Esq., Feilding. " Sir, — I am in receipt of yours of 10th instant, enclosing catalogue of show and applying for cheap return tickets to be issued to Feilding on 10th September for visitors to show. I regret that I cannot see my way to grant any reduction in fares on that occasion. "I have, &c, •'C. B. Hankey, " District Manager." This is blunt and conclusive. The simple truth is that the issue of these tickets would entail a little inconvenience on the officials, aud therefore "he cannot see his way." Yet in another part of the province of Wellington w--find that to-day a special train wiii leave Masterton for all Wairarapa stations at 10.15 p.m., to take home visitors to the Wairarapa Poultry, Pigeon, and Canary Society's Exhibition, held in the Theatre Royal, Masterton. The Committee of the Feilding Show asked nothing so out of the way as this. All they desired was that some slight encouragement would be given to visitors and their families by making the means of transit so reasonable as to induce them to use the railway for that purpose. In place of the public being attracted to the railway by the exercise of ordinary busi-ness-like tact on the part of those with whom the public has to deal, a repellant influence is exercised by tbe continued exhibition of discourtesy and blundering stupidity.