RAILWAYS CRITICISED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 342, 9 March 1922, Page 5

RAILWAYS CRITICISED.

'■‘NOT 1 OKI NT I R 1 ’ N TO PAY." (Per Press Association.) CIIRISTCHCRCII, March 3. The conduct ot (lie railway service came iu lor some severe criticism ai a meeting of ihe general committee of lie- I tinierbury A. and P. Association to-day. 1 lie matter was introduced by Mr if, K. Alexander, director of Lincoln Agricultural Col!oge, " Die commercial travellers, at their cenfevence.’ Mr Alexander said, “made ibe biilliani suggestion that the railways, should be sold, I think we should endorse linit suggestion. f l be present position is that,- everybody is grumbling about the railway management. I rang up last week for trucks to take stock to the Ashburton Show, and w;ts told 1 was too late. Last 'car I enquired at the same time, and wats told I was too early. At the present nine, if anyone wants a truck, be ha; to go to the Railway Department cap m band a fortnight before he wants the truck. Ibis association should call together a meeting of some son to protest against the present mismanagement of the railways, for things are going from bad to worse. Ihe lesitli ol ii all is that nobody will make use- ot the railways, and it* consequence they are not pa vine Thev .ire not being run to pay. | haven't mid a man at the present nine who hits not grumbled about tin railway mismanagement.” After further remarks it was decided that the present position of die railways be discussed at the annual meeting of the association.