RAILWAY MUDDLE.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 759, 21 December 1908, Page 2

RAILWAY MUDDLE.

"A VERITABLE NIGHTMARE." A SCANDAL ON THE MAIN TRUNK. THE PREMIER'S THREAT.

[PEE PBEBB ABBOOIATION.J ' Auckland, December 21. Passengers who arrived from the south by railway on Saturday night referred to their experience at Ohakune as "a veritable nightmare," many having learned that no accommodation was available at OhakuneThirty occupants of various carriages refused to leave the train. It is stated that railway officials /«</eruily forbade passengers sleeping iv the carriages, but the registers, male, and female, spread their coats and passed a restless night on the carriage steps. Some few who had ventured to take the chances of accommodation at Ohakune state that stretchers were used in all manner of 'places, even in the bathrooms, and the hours of rest extended only from 11 p.m. to 4 a.m. The Prime Minister, referring to these complaints, said that he would be much surprised if he found that any railway employees had acted as alleged, but if they did so, their action would not be repeated.