RAILWAY REFORM.
- TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS. Sir, —It is rather amuskig for Mr Cadman and the Department to refuse improving the railway service on the ground that extraor speedier trains would not pay. Very amusing considering that when tbe Commissioners had charge of affairs we were constantly being told, in Parliament and out of it, and by Government supporters generally, that the paying or not had nothing to do with the matter. " The railways were not to be run to pay," &c.; they belonged to the people, and were to be worked for their convenience and benefit, &c., &c. Now they have got the Commissioners out of it the tune is quite a different one.
Let mc say in conclusion that the greatest benefit the public ever received wa3 from the Commissioners. I refer to the daily return ticket. Nothing the Government has ever done can compare in any way with that great boon.—Yours, &c, CONSISTEKCT.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9836, 20 September 1897, Page 3
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