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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9041, 28 January 1908, Page 4

"What must occur to everyone," says the Saturday Review," commenting on the arrest of Signalman Hollis, as a result of the inquiry into the West Hampstead collision, "is the extraordinary responsibility thrown on an ordinary working man in Hollis' position. After seventeen years' employment he makes a mistake which may in itself be not different from an everyday mistake that anybody may make; but its consequences, are worlds, apart, and, he must be tried for manslaughter. One wonders that the very sense of the possibilities does not unnerve a man. How ridiculous'it seems to talk of paying people according to the responsibility of their employment! The clerk, whose responsibility is nil in comparison, gets more than a man like Hollis, on whom hundreds of people depend for their lives. How rottenly conventional our estimates of the value of different men's services and responsibilities to society are!"