RAILWAY MANAGEMENT

Taranaki Daily News, 9 March 1922, Page 4

RAILWAY MANAGEMENT

t SOME SEVERE CRITICISM. SALE SUGGESTED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. The conduct of the railway service came in for some severe criticism at a meeting of the general committee of the Canterbury A. and P. Association, to-day. The matter was introduced by Mr. R. E. Alexander, director of the Lincoln Agricultural College. “The commercial travellers, at their conference, Mr. Alexander said, “made a brilliant suggestion, that the railways should be sold. I tMnk we should endorse that suggestion. The present position is that everybody is grumbling about the railways management. 1 rang up last week for trucks to take stock to the Ashburton show, and was told I was too late. Last year I inquired at the same time and was told I was too early. At the present time, if anyone wants a truck he has to go to the Railway Department cap in hand a fortnight before he wants the truck. This association should call together a meeting of some sort to protest against the present mismanagement of the railway®, for things are going from bad to worse. The result of it all is that nobody will make use of the railways, and in consequence they are not paying. They are not being run to pay. I have not met a man at the present time who ha» not grumbled, about railway mismanagement.” After further remarks it was deeiaeu. that the present position of the railways be discussed at the annual meeting.