RAILWAY REFORM. – MR S, VAILE ON MR MAXWELL'S REPORT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2065, 1 October 1885, Page 4

RAILWAY REFORM. -MR S, VAILE ON MR MAXWELL'S REPORT.

lo mi union. ?m,— By tins day-, mail Mr Maxwells ic[)Oit on n\\ piojio^cd sjstcm of i.iiluay management eaine to hand. I int''iitl ) if you will kindly aifoid me space, to make a careful ieply to it in a '•eiies of lettei-. of modulate ltngth. As to the ii-poit, it may be summed up in the words, What dots Mr Vailc know? It is on» i long, l.ibonml attempt to pio\e that I am ignoi nit of the sublet I Inve. wutten and spoken aliout, mid in oidei to do tins I ,im mistpiotcd in the most untiuthful inainii i, and petty details aie alone dealt with, while the broad puiiciplcs I advocate aie not c\cn lefeiied to. What I lia\e persistently, and I tliink consist cntly, advocated, is this :— I. That the railuajs of the colony belong to the people 2. Tli.it, as cvety colonist is taxed for their si pport, the beneficial use of our lailways ought to be biought within the reach ol every class — the pooicstaswtll as tlie utlnst. 3. That we hive no light, and that it is unsound policy to iiiade the direct payment of iti tcif.t tlie jniiiiaiy object in making our i.nlways. 4. That the pumaiy object in making and working our railways ought to lit- the settlement of the country and the development of its resouices. 3. That i ail ways ought to be so managed as to bi ing about a nioic equal distribution of population and wealth (5 That where railroads belong to the community theie should be no ditlerential rating, but that all districts and all men placed under similar ciieutnstances should be tieattd alike. With none of these piinciplesis thei e the slightest attempt to deal, nor is theie the faintest reply to my heavy indictment ag-nnst the enors incon sistencics, and ab^uidities of the piusent management. Mi Kiehardson has infoimcd the House "that he had leceived a gteat many reports on the subject, and that thej huic too iiiimeious to piibli-.1i." Why? because they were afraid to inflict the piinteis' bill on the colony ' If he and all Ins subordinates took an oath to that (.fleet on their bended knees, nobody would believe them. He suppresses them because he darts not lut them see the light to d.i\. Again, why has the I'ublic Petitions Committee been infhienctd to smothei the petition of the Railway Kefoim League by icfcning it to the Government for consideration ? l)oc- the Depaitment imagine that anyone believes they would hesitate to incur the iwpence, if by that imans they could expose my ignoiancer Not a bit of it ; but they know that if I were before a commission of impaitial men that it would be their ignorance, not mine, that would be exposed, and they dare not stand the oideal. In my next I will deal with the fii^t portion of Mr Maxwell repoit, and before I have done w ill undei t ike to prove that not only has ] Mi Miixwell'i given the mo-t gaiblul ([notation--, and uutiutliful statcnw nta as] to vv hat I h.n c w utten and s ml, but that he has <iloo piottd liiiovvn tlnough incompttence and icnoi.inco of the gnat piinciples M liil.li should legulate the can} ing out of the important in paitmeiit he, unfoif mutely lor thn countiy, pieside^ over. — I am, ke , S\mi i l \'\ii,i.. Auckland, Siptemlni •_'"), ISS">.

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