THE RAILWAY SERVICE.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1673, 18 December 1911, Page 4

THE RAILWAY SERVICE.

IMPORTANT REFORMS. Somo important railway reforms were foreshadowed by the Hon. J. A. Millar at his meeting at Duneuin last Wednesday night. Ho mentioned that instructions had already been given to fit the second-class carriages with the cross scats now in use in the first-class carriages for females. Ho was prepared to exampt all children under live years of ago from ------ ment of fares, and to favourably con- , sidor the matter of half-fares between five and twelve years, but he could not sco his way to give the police the benefit of free passes, though he would extend tho privileges of a first-class pass to all railwaymen who have been in the employ of the State i for twenty years and over. The list of persons entitled to free passes was sufficiently heavy already, and he wished the taxpayer to understand clearly that if the railways were meant to pay their way, he must be assisted in resisting demands of this nature. He was determined that the users of the railways, and not tlie general taxpayer, should pay equit- , ably for tho privileges they enjoyed.