CHEESE-PARING POLICY.

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 294, 27 June 1929, Page 4

CHEESE-PARING POLICY.

THE Railway Department is always very much to the fore in making protestations of its desire to study and serve the public, but like many other State departments under the present administration, the performances of such promises are few and far between. This week important alterations to the railway services on the Rotorua line, affecting Putaruru, were put into operation, and it would naturally be expected that such alterations would be made public per medium of the paper circulating in the district, but apparently the Department has gone in for an “ economy stunt ” that is somewhat farcical. The Putaruru Chamber of Commerce has been (and still is) in communication with the Department on the subject, and the management of this paner has also pointed out the desirability of advertising train arrangements that affect the people of this district, but to each the reply has been that the present means of publicity are sufficient. We, with the Chamber, question this and in doing so it is not merely from a business point of the view, but from the viewpoint of the . public, who naturally look to the local paper to see such important things as alterations to the existing time-table advertised therein.

If the Department wishes to save money there are scores of ways in which it can be done, even on the lines of advertising and the use of stationery without adopting a cheese-paring policy that is likely to cause the public, for whom the Department professes such a solicitious desire to serve, inconvenience. in the face of this the Department’s protestations savour of hypocritical insincerity.