FREE PASSES AND CHEAP COMPLIMENTS.
Sir,—lf it were my luck to ho travelling about tho country in a first-class "free" I might join the Irish envoys 10 serving up big chunks of Blarney to the Minister tor Railways, but, as I am onl£ plain Bill Smith, who travels "second' and pays through the. nose "for being allowed to. do so," I would like to tell Mr. Millar that in my travels round tho world I have never struck any railway ivith worse accommodation than tho New Zealand railways. In my travels up and down the Main Trunk, line, I have had to travel in smokiug carriages, the condition, of which, has been simplv distrusting. On some journeys I have had to stand put on tho platform at tho end ot the carriage in tho sleet and rain, because tha carriages, were ' overcrowded and 'on other occasions because, the ' atmosphere, in tho carriages' has been' unbearable. The treatment accorded to the sporting publio simply proclaims- the sporting public to be a lot oi "oocktails," in allowing themselves to "5 treated', the way. they are in the matter of railway accommodation; and. in conclusion, 1 would like to tell Mr. Millar that the second-class railway accommodation 'in Neiv Zetland is not as good as that provided, for third-class passengers (mostly Kaffirs) on tho Cape Government taihvaysi—l an., ctc., "WORKER.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1198, 5 August 1911, Page 7
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