RAILWAY MANAGEMENT.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 216, 11 September 1908, Page 5

RAILWAY MANAGEMENT.

. TO THE BDITOB. ] Sir, —My attention has been drawn to "Ex-officio's" letter. This person tries to make it appear that he was present during the whole time my conversation with the clerk was going on, and incidentally draws in the fact that "the clerk was perfectly civil. ' , It does not say much for "Ex-officioV . manners to stick himself in the way j of hearing conversation which did not, in the least concern him, and which, so far as I can gather, was none of his business, but I pass that by. I made no charge against the clerk for incivility. Evidently from "Ex-officio's" explanation, civility is such a matter of rarity with these officials that attention is to be drawn to the unique occasion on which it is exhibited, but I did complain of the fact that I was kept waiting four days for my change. I got it back after considerable trouble and application, and,l thought then, • and still think, that travellers should not be placed, at the caprice of those ' "civil" clerks. If they undertake to1 do a thing it should be done, and my change should have been ready for me on my return from Seddon. Fivo , hours is a long time to obtain change J for a sovereign, even in such a poor : place as Blenheim, which has only1 four banks. As to "Ex-officio" and his Quixotic defence, I think it is as I well for the> travelling public that he is "Ex-officio." That is taking him at his own valuation, which I am inclined to doubt. He will find, however, that! his tilting at the wind has no effect on J TADPOLE, i