RAILWAYS.
TO THE EDITOR. Sik,—Mr. I*. Oliphant is perfectly correct in stating that low fares are only a success when trains are run between populous centres; but " Business" thinks otherwise, and considers that the Railway Commissioners are not studying the interest or convenience of the public by, I suppose, adhering to their present management. Now, what constitutes the public? Those only who are receiving the advantages of railway travelling, like " Business." No, but the whole of the ratepayers of the colony ; not only those who are residing contiguous to railways, but those residing at the various distant settlements on the East and West Coasts—every person, in short, who is taxed for the purpose of paying interest on the loans borrowed for the formation of railways, whether benefited by their construction or not. Therefore it is the duty of the Railway Commissioners to study the interest of the public, but not ir-. the narrow sense in which that word is applied by " Business."—l am, &c., Brevity.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8300, 5 July 1890, Page 3
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