"SLOWEST IN THE WORLD."

Taranaki Daily News, 31 July 1919, Page 7

"SLOWEST IN THE WORLD."

VISITOR'S COMMENTS ON NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. 'I don't like your railway system It is the most inconvenient, and certainly the slowest I have experienced in my travels," said a visitor to New Zealand, who arrived in Wellington from Auckland on Saturday. '-Evidently New Zeaianders are a docile poople, and will put up with anything for the sake of peacs. Coal, I am told, i 9 the trouble, but; it seems to rao that there is enough timber going to waste on the. run down from Auckland to supply fuel for all the freight haulago that will be required in this country for years to come. 'What ia wanted is enterprise, and I your Congress who controls the freighters don't seem to possess overmuch of it. The railways in this country are so slow that they cannot conclude the ; "-nmey before the tickets expire. I made the journey from Te Aroha and it took four days to get to Wellington. After staying overnight at Palmerston I joined the train in the morning, and when the official came for the ticket lie said, after looking at it, 'This is no good : it ran out yesterday.' Sure enough thn ticket was marked only good for three days, and had another fare been insisted upon I certainly would not have appreciated the joke "