RAILWAY REFORM: THE NEW TARIFF.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1965, 10 February 1885, Page 3

RAILWAY REFORM: THE NEW TARIFF.

TO TIfK KDITOK. Siu,— lt n> not till yesteiday that T v.is .ihle ti> find time to glance .it the new taiiff. We wore led to evpeet that it would gi\o us lower rates .md grcitei simplicity >n j the regulations. Instead of this its tmlk. h.is been incie.ised, until it now numhcis I 4"> pages of foolscap letterpress ; while for complication ana unjust regulation of the eh.uges, it is wotse th.m .mv of its i iHedeci's-soi-t. As oiu .igricultni.il and p.istoi.'il pioducts fiom oui thief indiistrv, I will tirnt call your attention to the altei.ttion of these classes. The cli irge foi unpie-sed chaff remains .us hefoie, but f«>r pressed .1 r.ite and u half is charged instead of double rates .is previously. Under the last taiiff the eh.uge for convening a ton of goods to class ft — grain, potatoes, &c- -seventeen miles fiom any station in Canterbury , was 5s (id jut ton, and in this province, if hent duect to Auckland or Onehongo, the same chaige was made, but if .sent to any other station, the chaige was (is lOd jwr ton. This is without terminal charge in either case, which, in Christchurch, is Is 2d, and in Auckland Is Nd per toil. Under the new tariff the charge now in Canterbuiy, is 4s only, while m Auckland it remains a* befoie. For carrying not less than 100 tons of class E, from funnm to Lyttleton, 107 miles, the ch.ugo under the last taiiff was 14s lid. It is now 12s, while, fiom Tn Aw.unutu to Auckland it remains an before, at 14* Id for tho 100 miles only, if sent dnect to the Railway Wh.uf, but if the same distance to any othei station, 17s lid. For sending a ton of potatoes from Te Awamutu to Hensville, the charge ls'ils lOd : for the name distance in Canterbury, His. This is , i fuithei application of the diffeientinl rating system, and its effect on Auckland tiade, commerce, and piopeity, ought to be easily understood by the dullest ttbserver. Under the heaning Hutunui-Bluff section, clam X, occuisthe following Hplendid n»ecimen of i ail way jargon : — "For goods of class X, from station nornih of Oainaiu to oouth thereof, or vice veria, tho clussifiod rates will be reduced to tho extend suucified_ above foi the distance huch goods are carried north of Uamaru." It is difficult to make any sense out of this paragraph , but what I take ll to mean is thin that on nil produce dtawn towards Christchui.di :i remission of Is <id i>er ton is made, while if sent towntdu )uncdin no such advantage is gi\en. The following very abstud upooimen of diflfeicntial lating occurs on our own line. Foi carrying a ton of goods of class X to Cambridge, 101 miles, the charge is 13s (id, while to Hamilton. S(> nnlus only, the charge ii Ids sd, or to To Awamutu, 100 mile*, 17-* lid. The To Awamtitu man alno payw l>d per ton more for his lnanines than the Cambridge man does. Tho surely must be Rome extra good people about Cambridge, or some e\tia thick heads about the Railway Department. But, seriously how long aro we to submit nuietly to such unjust imnoHilion '! Why should Auckland he placed at such a disadTantnge as regards Canterbury, or Te Awamutu and Hamilton as rcgaids Cambridgo.— l am, ke, Hamukl Vailk. Auckland, February 2, 188.">. P.S. — There is a good deal more that wants opposing, and I will return to the subject in a few day**'— S.V,

lenders are required for carting gravel to Lake House, Hamilton. Good Words— Fkom Goou Authority —We confess tlmt we are perfectly amazed at the run of your Hop Hitters. We neicr had anything like it, and never heard of the like, ibe writer (Kenton) has been selling drugs here nearly thirty jears, and Ins seen the rise of Hostetttr's Vinegar and all other bitters md patent medicines, but never did any of them, in their bett da>s, begin to have the run that Hop Hitters have . . We can't get enough of them. We are out of them half the time. . . Kztract from letters to Hop Bitters Co , August 22, 78, from Bun ton, Myers «t Co. Wholcsalo druggists, (,'loeUnd, Q. Ik sure, and be«.