The ex-Railway Commissioners.
(FEE PUESB ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, Jamiary ?.3. The late Railway Commissioners, before retiring from office, prepared a short report closing the record of the term of office up to the 20th inst. It states that since the annual report on the 31st March, 1893, that 59 miles of railway were opened up. The net revenue from the 31st March to January 6th was £315,999, as against £311,288 for a, similar period for the preceding year. As the best three months of the year are to come, the Commissioners anticipate that the estimate will be realised. The officers report that the traffic staff is efficient, while the start' generally is in a state of excellent organisation. The system introduced in 1880 of engaging lads only in different branches of the service and training and educating them for various duties and the system of classification of pay and promotion from the lower to the higher grades have, the Commissioners state, answered excellently, and the service is now manned by officers and men trained to railway and telegraphic
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 221, 24 January 1894, Page 2
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