MR. VAILE'S SYSTEM.
TO THE EDITOR. Sib, — As Mr. Vaile has always shown himself ready, with patient courtesy, to answer questions on, or to refute objections to, the principles of his railway policy, I am emboldened to ask him a question which was suggested to my mind when reading his letter in to-day's paper. Mr. Vaile states that "the powerful and enlightened nations, England and America," nave made laws against differential rating. In those countries the railways are in private hands, and how far that may make a difference in the difficult matter of a goods tariff, compared with New Zealand, where the railways are public property, I do not know. But I imagine that the difficulties which are obvious in arranging a goods tariff would not appear in arranging a passenger tariff. The question 1 wish to ask Mr. Vaile is this : What, in his opinion, is the reason that England and America have rob adopted, with resect to passenger traffic, some such system as he advocates? — I am, &c., J. H. Upton.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9323, 28 March 1889, Page 3
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