REMOVING THE CAUSES

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 85, 13 April 1929, Page 11

REMOVING THE CAUSES

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.")

AUCKLAND, This Day,

In the course of an , editorial on trains running late, the "Herald" says: - - '■ . ."''

"The Minister of Railways has issued a statement categorically .denying the suggestion, that'delays in the arrival of important mail trains have ■ been deliberately" engineered. He denies the existence of any 'go-slow.' policy, and says the delays have been 'duetto incidents always more •or less '.attendant on the-working of a railway.' The [Minister's statement' can' be accepted unreservedly. The onus having been removed-from the railway staffs, it rests all the iniore -directly on the. management. Trains have been arriving late all over.New Zealand. Complaints about delays have arisen in places so far apart as Auckland .. and Dunedin. . ' . . , ■ ■ .'. .I,' : "Mr. ■■'• Taverner has simply, said what has not caused,the.trouble, whichiß of; little value as an ..assurance again?t its continuance* The lateness of important trains has been so frequent recently that it cannot reasonably be attributed to the causes .stated by him, or, if it is so, then the., sudden rush of contingencies has been very remarkable. .While' the " Minister's statement defending the" loyalty of the staff eah be accepted thankfully,' 'the public will be air the more expectant of an assurance. that", the "positive causes of delayed running have been detected and guarded against for. the future.". '..-