MAKING THE RAILWAYS PAY.
The Hon. J. A. Millar has been commended of late for his endeavour to make the railways a paying concern,
and the statement made by the
Prime Minister in the House of Representatives on Friday shows that the receipts for the past five months have been enormously in excess for those for the corresponding period of last year. But who is being made to pay the piper ? The country settler, of course. It is he who supplies the grist for the railway mill. And how is he treated ? His convenience is being shamelessly disregarded. Imagine the District Trafßc Manager of the Wellington section demanding payment for an extra engine, beside the ordinary freight, when more than tw® wagons of cattle are required to be taken over the Rimutaka ! Who ever heard
of such an outrageous proposition? If methods such as these have to be employed to make the railways pay, then the sooner a business manager is placed at the head of affairs the better will it be for the dominion.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10084, 5 September 1910, Page 4
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175MAKING THE RAILWAYS PAY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10084, 5 September 1910, Page 4
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