Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1884. THE RAILWAY TARIFF.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 105, 31 March 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1884. THE RAILWAY TARIFF.

iVAßious public bodies iii the Jifiddle Island have expressed their Opinion ad verse to the new railway iariff. One Southern paper points oat Jthat the uew tariff not only lays a heavy class tax upon agriculturists, .but;:.. the. passenger fares hay« been raised - teift ' p,er .csent,., and th&* will undoubtedly , i give drssatisfaction. to. the railwayI travelling pubjUq.-. Whdn the w lato / Minister for Pubfic^Wor-fei Vediffcecr'^e^ fares last y eaiy bisection was f gejnejially approved of as a s|ep ithe ifg|»t dircctioiC ff our railways as a whole do not pay inte.vejtf pn, their construe- f tion at present; ivefail l to see how niat- ' tex\s will he mended by making travelling more expensive than It" is "ifnw. Perhaps Mr i: iliufc,> % ! itfcvea^ing LhVfares c teii per cent lie' will augment the receipts proportionately, but the.ygri<js<tyVs Jft )p.ftlifiicalj economy coula exposd the this. The number of peoplc r m the colonyj-who Sr^fo'rced to n uso Hbe^vnii-"' way as v means of getting, froni place to place is comparatively smalt, and wo should not. bo astouished. t6~Tmd~tliat the passenger re i uvns for the . next :!year shbw a 'marked 1 Filling offin'nunibers. The step which lias been ta^en is a retrograde, one, and it is jiiore than doubtful whether the revenue, of. jt^e f country'Hviil' be greatly 1 increased!" by the change. i rr -\a yTfVif TV! "l/f /-