THE RAILWAY SERVICE

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 57, 9 March 1922, Page 10

THE RAILWAY SERVICE

MORE CRITICISM;

(BT TBI.BaitAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

CHRISTCHURCH, Bth March,

The conduct of the railway service came in for severe criticism at a meeting of the general committee of the Canterbury A. and P. Association. The matter was introduced by Mr. R. E. Alexander, Director of Lincoln Agricultural College. " The Commercial Travellers, at their conference," Mr.> Alexander said, "made the brilliant suggestion that the railways should be sold. I think we should endorse that suggestion. The present position is that everybody is grumbling about the railways management. "I rang up last week for trucks to take stock to the Ashburton Show, and was told I was too late. Last year I inquired at the same time and was told I was too early. At the present time if anyone wants a truck he has to go to the Railway Department, cap in band, a fortnight before he wants the truck. , ' *

" This association should call together a meeting of some sort to protest against the present mismanagement of the railways, for things .are going from bad to worse.

"The result of it all is that nobody will make nse of the railways, and in consequence they are not paying. They are not being run to pay. I have not met a man at the present time who has not a grumble about the railway mismanagement." After further discussion it was decided to present the position of the railways to be discussed at the annual meeting of the association.