MR. VAILE AND RAILWAY RATES.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—ln your report of Mr. S. Vaile's lecture yesterday you state : " They saw in Victoria the danger to a community through the people being piled up in masses in a town, while the country was comparatively unpopulated," etc. Why, sir, it is only about six months ago that you printed an extract from a private letter received from a New Zealander in Melbourne, showing how remarkably cheap railway travelling had been made in Victoria. I cannot from memory give the rates quoted, bub it certainly was astonishingly cheap. So that argument will scarcely do. It is a poor " saw " that won't work both ways, and for myself I never can get over the feeling that if you have cheap fares to get out into the country you will have cheap fares for the countryman to get into town, and so long as a man can gefe work and amusement there, so long will he crowd into the city. All experience from Continental statistics proves this.—l am, etc., An Old Buffer.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8364, 18 September 1890, Page 3
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