RAILWAYS MANAGEMENT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1216, 26 August 1911, Page 14

RAILWAYS MANAGEMENT.

Sir,—l notices in the' papers and elsewhere an intermittent outcry against the shortcomings ■ and peculiarities of . the Railway Department, from which ' I gather the plain fact that incapacity therein is rampant. Now the remedy appears to. mo to be very simple You may recollect the Minister's son, after a twoyears' sojourn in the- Old Country, reappeared here as an. expert in electricity. This I can believe, as a smart man could learn more at Home in that space of lime than he could in fifty years in NewZealand, where there is no one capable of teaching him. Very well, then. Let the Minister at once send some of his head office officials to England for two years, and then perhaps the might pick up some little'idea of'how to. carry on railway traffic for'the benefit of the community at large. The Minister might as well dispatch pretty well tho entire staff of the so-called head office on the same onrand, for I'll be bound to say they have very little idea about anything beyond red tape and ruled foolscap. But it may be asked, while the crowd is away who is to run the show? Why, tho Minister himself, of course, and then he will have a chance to prove he has, not quite forgotten his early training and that, despite adverse -currents, he is still able to reef and steer a proper course.—l am, etc., ,TOKO.