THE RAILWAY.

Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 483, 24 June 1875, Page 2

THE RAILWAY.

"We recently felt v it our duty to say some rather severe things She railway management. For these st*jc!h^» we are by a correspondent ofcjthl who signs himself " J/O. W?' anH sVys :"" With regard to the timber being thi-own down to rot, it is a falsehood. I saw the timber put off on the scoria ash, and there it now remains — not through the fault of the station-master here, hut through the fault of the agent employed by Capt Beere, the consignee, for I have ascerfcairifed the facts." *-£i reply to this we publish the Allowing e£tra3b firom a letter addressed by Capt Beeres agent atMercer, to that gentleman :—: — " Capt Beere, " Dear Sir, — Some junk timber for you was thrown off the trucks several hundred yards from the wharf. We do not undertake to take delivery of timbe^fcher^a^t will bemecessary to cart it to the wharS^jfere^hW Weß^much growling aboife paying forftis "ttrat *e\sT n^do it unless instructed." Captain Beere further informs us that his man went down to Mercer and endeavoured to have the timber brdWht further along the line, but althougjTfc^fferli tapajftgr the work, no one would cVb.-T Thl^B^^p^er on the railway threatened>tha^*if the-ti\ber was not at once removed from where it had been thrown an extra charge would be made for it. The carelessness of the railway authorities has already involved a week's delay, and the wo^fo|«hich the timber is required is at a standstill. has since telegraphed ~ to the heaa-porter mM.e&£ y offering to pay for the carriage of the timber to the wharf, but has received no reply. The timber still remains beside the line, and there is a prospect of further delay and inconvenience. It would have been more becoming on the part of "J. O. W." if he had taken some pains to inquire into these facts before rus bine into mint.