THE RAILWAYS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 14432, 24 July 1907, Page 4

THE RAILWAYS.

TO THE KDITOK. I Sir, —I notice in your valuable paper of yesterday morning that Mr Muggins has taken up his pen in connection with. railway matters, and touches upon tho Bankeide collision. It is quite pleasing to note that the public have not altogether forgotten the recent inquiry and the injustice done- to the driver nnd guard. In Parliament a few days ago. Mr Hornsby, member for Carterton, made a vigorous attack upon railway administration, after which another member, representing a prohibition district, said that Mr Hornsby wont through the country stirring up strife, and was to be presented with a purse of sovereigns in a few days. More power to him, X say, for he is trying to improve tie conditions of the railway workers, and also to make travelling safer for the public. Are we then, even in the House, to have these matters suppressed, and the eyes of the public closed just to suit the select few ? If a ship is run on the rocks and

wrecked, the fullest inquiry is mad«* '■, and no half measures like the Bank».f eide inquiry, which was only held to dispense with the services of two men. ,- Quite recently a vessel called the Ki»Ora was wrecked on the New Zealand coast. What is the consequence? A most careful and minute inquiry is held, and evidence called "to sift- th« matter to the very bottom. What i* the result? The proper person ia punished, and that is what the public ask. for and expect. lam not vindictive, but am still of opinion that someone els*, has blundered in connection with th» collision, and I trust the time is not • far distant when they will be called before the footlights to show cause why they should not be punished.—l em> etc., TRAVELLER,.