Railway Management.
(Per Press Association.) Sydney, This Day. The Government propose to grant a subsidy of £50,000 per annum to tne Railway Commission in order to enable tbem to reduce the rates in certain districts. The cue was evidently taken from the Victorian Railway Trust Bill, which emqodies a similar idea. At present the burden of the unprofitable lines is borne by the paying ones, and any loss beyond has to be made up from the general revenue. The figures given in the annual reports of the Railway Department show this loss amounts to some £860,000, and the idea seems to be to devote .£50,000 per annum towards redncing this sum, and thereby enabling the railway rates to be reduced.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 141, 13 December 1895, Page 2
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120Railway Management. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 141, 13 December 1895, Page 2
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