RAILWAYS AND BUTTER.
The Railway Department has decided that it 'cannot take two trucks of stock over the Rimutaka railway. It has further decided that it cannot provide an insulated car for a single ton of butter. These decisions have been arrived at pursuant to the policy of making the railways pay. j One cannot help thinking that these decisions are abitrary. If carried to ! their logical conclusion they would' mean that a mortuary car could not be obtained unless there were half-a-dozen corpses available; and that_ no I passenger train .would be run unless it were reasonably full of passengers. If this is the policy the State intends pursuing in its effort to make the railways pay, the time will be hastened when the public will demand that the control of the service be placed in the bands of men of business.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10115, 10 October 1910, Page 4
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143RAILWAYS AND BUTTER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10115, 10 October 1910, Page 4
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