NEW RAILWAY TIME-TABLE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1695, 5 April 1917, Page 3

NEW RAILWAY TIME-TABLE.

SOUTHERN FAVOURITISM,

"The gross favouritism displayed towards (lie South .Island in the new railway time-table has excited very general attention, and is strongly resented by all who believe that the North is entitled to fair and equitable consideration in ail national affairs,” says the New Zealand Herald in the course of an editorial on the new time-table. It adds: “This is the hard fact: that there is to lie no reduction of express services between Christchurch and Dunedin upon a Main Trunk system which does not pay interest on the cost of its construction; while between Auckland and Wellington, upon a Main 'frank system which not only pays its own way but also makes up the annual Southern deficit, express facilities are being reduced by one-half. In addition, it should be noticed, daylight expresses are the rule in tin; South, where their obvious advantages are not only recognised but secured. Their fast (rains do not run in the midnight hours llmmgli sleeping countrysides, although our trains have to do this in order to connect with them. The South islanders know what is best for them, and obtain it at our expense. We could have the same facilities if there were any such interest taken in our Northern wants as is taken in the wants of the South, and if the Auckland-Wel-lington trains were speeded up, as they could easily be. But, however that may be, at least we arc entitled to see the South Island sharing wur-reductions in the new railway time-table.”