RAILWAYS EXPLOITED.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1922, Page 6

RAILWAYS EXPLOITED.

SOME INTERESTING SIDELIGHTS. (By Telegraph.—l'rcss Association.) WELLINGTON", this day. Among the remits discussed by the railway officers' conference was one from Dunedin in favour of withdrawing all concessions to tbe publi c except Ire* passes for school children, or crediting the Department with the value of services rendered. Several delegates said the time hud arrived when the glove* had to be taken otT, as they were sick and tired of reading ignorant and illadvised comment originating front sources that bad but a ha/.v idea of rail-

way transport. When salaries and wages were being attacked it was tlicir duty to show bow the railways were being exploited by ccrt.iin internets at the expense of men in tbe service. _> niong the items criticised was the free cirriaga of agricultural lime up i,, inn miles, which it was asserted caused a loss 0' thousands of pounds \eir|v. '1 rucks caught tire a nd were damaged "r destroyed. Often farmers who go! Ii mo free sent the produce therc.f away h\ motor. A number of other articles were ;ilso carried free, and the freight oil beef for export had just been reduced. u-iinber of people, including "distiimuisho,. visitors." were conveyed for no'binu'. or at low rates. A ci-e (-uitainiii._ tiv.i cwt. of milk was earriel 100 miles f,. r :'.'S, and cans were returned free. Other s rr " vices were mentioned whi-b the I>.--..irt-ment did for nothing. The -~., it was Passed, and the executive ..cr, in-'r'ic'ed to so full,- into the mutter, in .-r.'er tn instruct the public us to son..- of the reasons why the raUiy-ivs -'... c.l a deficit.