TOPICAL READING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3205, 3 June 1909, Page 4

TOPICAL READING.

RECOVERY OF DEBT. j There is no doubt in our minds, says , the Christchurch "Press," that the \ credit system, if it cannot be abol- j ished, might be still further re- ' stricted, with advantage both to the ■ tradespeople and to their customers. A little more co-operation among , traders with a view to bringing about , this reform might Drove in the long > run more to the advantage of all concerned than any alteration in the law. N - PROTECTIVE GROYNES. Good progress is being made with the work of, constructing protective groynes between the Waingawa bridge and the railway bridge. It will be remembered that this important work was authorised to be put , into immediate execution as the result of a conference of representatives from both the Masterton and South Wairarapa County Councils, which was held at the bridge about the middle of last month. The object of the protective work is to divert the streams into a course down the centre of the river bed, and there is every prospect that the result will be j successful. Mr W. Perry has almost completed the building of a groyne below the bridge near his property, which should have the effect of assisting the scheme proposed by the two Councils. RAILWAY MANAGEMENT. Railway management may not count for much in the South, where progress is comparatively stagnant, and where there are not only too many railways, but too much rolling stock and too many hands. But management is important in the lustilygrowing North, where there are not enough railways, rolling stock, or railway hands. Would it not be possible, remarks the Auckland "Herald," to send one or two aging officials to England to see how modern railways are managed? A few years ago it was thought that State ownership had ended the railway question satisfactorily, but we ' have lived to learn that even State ownership can be accompanied by bad management when the authorities get completely out of touch and sympathy with the public.