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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 404, 13 January 1909, Page 8

; Commenting .■ oni'the Lake::.Wajjatipusteaiher- service, tlie Wakatijiu. "Mail , "! says:—"lf the Minister for Eailways '. and' ithose, who are in authority under' him' at "'Wellington 'were to visit,the, Lakes District .'during tie tourist season they would get an opular;demonstration of the failure of bujv steamer service to cope with the ever-increasing, traffic on tlie'lake. .On Several : this season the Officer-in-charge ; has been- much perplexed to know which/steamer to fsend to the Head ■of -the Lako : and^which. to send , to Kingsto.h.;' His desire, is,J of ■' course/ to send the largest steamer": in which the largest crowd desires to .'.travel; be it Head of Lake.or .Kingston. ■■■-: And it is only" by, good fortune ;if. he ; gauge tho mind of the travelling public. . day ho'erfed in. his judgment,.'but,;we.'dq'.]jot\b'iame: him in. the least.: .Close ori; starting-for the Head of-the Lake,'.the Ben\Lomond,' which was set apart-"for the trip,, began 'to/ fill up'un-. comfortably, so that ,a change : 'over to the Mountaineer .was compulsory; 'Considerable delay and confusion were;caused';thereby Then , after all there; was ..barely.' standine room ,on the Ben Lomond,; which took the ! £20,000, has.beon put: on' the' Estimates for the steamer, practically no further progress has been made with the project What can be more exasperating .than .-this, after the madeiby the Prime Minister last. year while in Queehstown, and to,our niember, Mr. Frascr, ;during last sessioiv of Parliament, that;the. steamer