RAILWAY REFORM.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1945, 23 December 1884, Page 4

RAILWAY REFORM.

fO TMB KM TOR. t; rK; — Without any Invitation C accept Mr Swarbnek's challenge, and if he and " the traffic manager of our iailwa\s, with the statistic*, at their disposal, will have no difficulty in decoying c\eiy item of Mr Vaih-'s plan,'" tiny will be able to do wh.it no one yet has been oAile even to commence doing. 1 ceitainly do not fear the result. My pioposals lm\u been befoio the public for the last two yeais, and 1 now have in my possession .1 huge sci up album with over 100 folios full of leading articles, coi-ie->poudun<_o .uid p.ipci-* on tlu^ subject fium all the piincipal centies m "Now Zealand, and it appu.u s to me something v, ondcifnl that, if it could be so ea-ily disposed of, so inueli time and trouble should have been thrown away over it. i may, perhaps, be pei nutted to a&k why, if I and my plans could be so easily put aside Mr ttuaibtick did not avail himself of the oppoitinnty when I was in the W.ukato? He knew I was coming, and I spent a, week theie which involved considerable loss of time a.ii'l money to me. Under the-^c ciieumstances I think I am entitled to ask that Mr .Suvrbiick should come to Auckland to dispute the points at i-sno. in the meantime I may that •scveia.l railway men of equal standing with Mi Swaibiick, and hiving in some instances a much Linger o\poi ience, and, what i-> to the point, colon!. 1 ! (^iii'iioneo, whicli Mr Mwaibiiok has not, liaM 1 i'\pie--cd theii appiovalof iiiv plan--- that is to ■»>>', as le g.uds financial ie>ult-~. The detail*, of working it In- not beon nocosi.uy to enqiuie into as >et, but that is a small inattei. ]j^t me aijain c ill the attention of yom leadeis to the fitt that I have neveL attem]itod to deal with the detail? of laih.ay management, but have con lined m\-.elf to tliu financial poition of tlnj (MH'-tion, and with this my jjicmous ti .lining and evpeu'encp ceitunly (|U.ih(ie-> mu to ddl. Xoailj all our tumble^ luue aii-^en fi om the fact that we h.ivu made the mistaki. of lea\m^ radwmv engmeoi-. .md tiai^e inan.ijfoi-— this is wlicic we lia\o Luipli>>cd a " nayen-stieot clerk to teach us fanning ' — to do the woik of ,i boaul of coinmeici.il and financial men, tt> frame our t.uitK, woik for winch their piewoiis training has ceitainly not fitted them. I mean no disi expect whatever to these gentlemen, but it is u^ele-.-. to expect men to do woik for which they have not been trained. Mr Swaibiick uiges that we should still leave it to them. We have done so foi .some yeais past, and what have they given ut ! We asked for a nMi and they have, given us a seipent, or a-, the old Spanish proverb put-, it, they "Cry wmo and sell unreal." 1 am, &c, S vmill Vaiie. P.B. — I will ansv\ci yom anonymou-, correspondent m time for your next issue. S.V. Auckland, lfth December, 1881.