NEW RAILWAY POLICY IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2946, 2 June 1891, Page 2

NEW RAILWAY POLICY IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

TO THE KDITOIt. Silt,—lt will be of interest to many nf your readers to learn that the new railway rates which came into operation recently in New Sooth Wales make large concessions in favour cf inland enterprise generally, and will tend to removo the cornplaints of nnfair treatment which those engaged in agricultural pursuits and others have long made. Within the last six months the Commissioners for Railways have taken up a work, which is now distinctly a policy with them, namely, of obliterating the differential system by gradually adopting a general minimum rate. The charges now made, considered in conjunction with those of last August, may be described as a sweeping reduction of heights throughout the country. Previously, the differental rate existed only between Sydney and the terminal points of the southern, south-western and western | lines. These reductions are to be followed by a now parcels system for the development of inter-district trade, on which the Commissioners promise a greit reduction. A district or 7.0110 imp is now being prep:n".d for with districts specified, between which certain charges will be miuio for parcels of all descriptions of produce and merchandise. The prices now rule at about 2s 10J for 1 lib., and "n lid for 2Hlb., carried .'3OO miles, but the reduction will be to about Is fid and 2s 10d, respectively, and special parcels'cars will be attached to all mail and fast-running trains for the rapid transmission of the consignments to any destination in the various lines in city or country.—Yours, &c., Visrrou.