Inspectors, not Spies.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 May 1911, Page 3

Inspectors, not Spies.

<» fI'ER PRKR9 ASSOCIAIION.j AUCKLAND May 11. Mr T. Ronayne, gonei-al mana.gei of the New Zealand railways, was asked, by a reporter to-day if he had any remark to make concerning tinallegations of espionage which have been made by railway servants against the department. He stated he knew nothing of any such thing, and could make no statement of a more particular nature. The Railway Department employed inspectors to see that the guards anrl ticket collectors did their work properly, but they were all known, ■uitl there was little difference between their employment and that of the inspectors in the tram sen-ice. To call them "spies" was no more reasonable than to apply the same term to the auditors who went round tinrailway stations to examine the books.