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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3220, 18 June 1909, Page 4

The report of the Commission appointed to inquire into the working of the Railway Workshops at Addington is, perhaps, an indirect argument in favour of a Public Service Board. A body of eighty men elected by popular vote is probably not the best that could be devised to deal with the intricate questions that are involved in the management, maintenance and development of railway work shops. On the other hand "highly polished" experts are not altogether desirable, .for they may prove to be both ''faddy" and expensive. The Government are to be congratulated upon having had the inquiry made, and they have apparently a latent wish to effect some reforms where reform is evidently needed. By the closing up of Parliament, however, the Government have deliberately shelved a number of most important matters, and reform of the Addington Workshops is one of them. A Board composed of shrewd business men of wide experience would most certainly manage the railways of this country to the benefit of the people as a whole.