THE CARRIAGE OF NEWSPAPERS

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 442, 1 February 1890, Page 2

THE CARRIAGE OF NEWSPAPERS

The - Rangitikei Advocate has I the following :—“The tux imposed by the Railway Commissioners for the * card£ -'hewtipupers i along the line isexeiting Widespread dissatisfaction. It is excessive, to begin with,, and very inconvenient!lin its' 1 .operation... From Noith to South there are muimurings, not load, perhaps,, but deep, and action has been taken by one gapcr, the Lyttelton Times, to ascer'aTa what is done in a similar direction.in-neighbouring colonies, and it findsthat in New South Wafts the conmiisstowetb there have acted in a direction quite contrary to ours. Newspaper have been carried free of charge over the whole railway system, but’ under the old regime many obstacles were thrown in the way. . When- the present contmLsioners came into office a new order jof things obtained, and every possible faciliv was given to the distribution of newspapers. As the guards are men to be trusted, to Ithein is 'given die;'‘duty of throwing off the daily papers litneu-stop-pmg stations. The commissioners also decided that as certain goods trains had to b; run at sometime during the twenty-four hours, they might as well despatch them immediately after the morning papers hud gone to press. These trains now run regularly ; they are invariably loaded for distant stations on the principal lines, and as few stoppages have to be made, the commissioners authorised increased speed; so that by this means the papers might be delivered us early as possible. In the near future the commissioners hope to make such that Sydney morning papers will be delivered at the outmost otations the same morning.'’ The Otago Daily . Times - says>: —iAs Mr Eddy is about, to visit this colony shortly, perhaps he, with his Very much larger experience, may be able to convince Mr McKerrow tha,t ,iiis recent tax is unwise,-to say ; the least.”. J.,*. I