OUR RAILWAYS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2203, 26 January 1886, Page 2

OUR RAILWAYS.

.Two prominent features in the mismanagement of our railways (says an Auckland paper) aro the. non-issuing of .tickets till within' a few minutes of the ■departure of trains,'and the refusal to issue return tickets, except on Saturdays, In getting ordinary tickets, passengers aro put to great inconvenience from the scramble that has to be made at the ticket "window, consequent upon the crowding there, in many instances, of people anxious to obtain their tickets in time. In Australia, and everywhere else whete proper railway management tickets—both and issued at all hours during which the railway offices are open to the public, and thus inconvenience is obviated, and tli§, railway department is correspondingly-benefited. In New Zealand, the ejther from incompetency or obstinacy, do not appear to study public convenience at all, hence the incessant well-founded complaints made against them from all parts of the colony. Why does not the Minister for Public Works perceive the propriety of reforming his department, when ho must bo fully aware of so many existing defects in the working thereof. If the officers to whom railway management is entrustod are in any way incompetent, let them be superseded by men who possess the requisite qualifications for positions of that description rather than continue in office. ■