TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1169, 27 April 1910, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[PEB PEESB ABBOCIATION.] RETURN OT MR MILLAR

Wellington, April 27. The Hon. J. A. Millar returned tliis morning by the Moana from Australia. He found that there were constant complaints similar to the kind made in New Zealand regarding a shortage of trucks, freight, and the time-tables. The wages paid on the whole were not so high as those paid in New Zealand, nor were the conditions of employment so good. Railway experts over there expressed surprise , at the high speed maintained on the narrow-gauge railways in New Zealand, which compared well with Australian speed. Mr Fehon, who has spent nearly all bis life as a railway man, was satisfied with the New Zealand conditions. Mr Millar says that the cry for a second AucklandWellington express now appeared to him , more unreasonable than ever, as one express per day was sufficient between Sydney and Melbourne, two towns having a population of over a million between them.