RAILWAY SCANDAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1718, 7 April 1906, Page 2

RAILWAY SCANDAL.

COMMISSIONERS WHO COULD NOT AGREE. THE REPORT. By telegraph, Preso Aes’n, Copyright Received 9 22 p.m„ April 6. Sydney, April 6. Tho report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the ra lway administration finds in regard to the relations existing between tbe Commissioners that inharmonious relations have ixisled between the Railway Commissioners from a very early period of their official association ; that the origination of those relations is to be attributed to the attitude of the chief commissioner towards his colleagues, especially towards one of them ; that their oontinuance is mainly, the president thinks, due to the same cause , that the relations have had injurious effects on the railway service, as tending to ihe establishment of partisanship on tbe pa-t of officers and meD, therefore leading to the destruction, or at least declension, of that spirit of loyalty which ought to prevail. Seoondly, in tho public interest, on account of tbe delay and expenee occasioned in some instances by differences which have arisen, these differeners, we think, must inevitably have resulted in tho waste of energy which neoessarily tended to make progressive railway management difficult, if not impossible ; that it seems hopeless to expect the Commissioners oan ever again be officially associated with any satisfaction to themselves or the public, after fruitless efforts that have been made to biing about improved coudiiions, and in view of tho disclosures made at this inquiry.