REPLY TO "AN OLD BUFFER."
TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—Allow me to point out to your correspondent that the question at issue is nob one of cheap or dear rates at all, but of the system on which those rates are levied. As I have many times before stated, so long as the present " abominable no system of railways" remains in force, the cheaper the rate the greater the curse. What I argue for is a total change of system, combined with cheap rates. "An Old Buffer" says people " will crowd into the city." Had he honoured me with his presence on Tuesday, he would have seen that it is not that " they will," but that, under existing circumstauces, "they must." He speaks of Continental experience. Allow me to inform him that, until within the last few months, the same system, or rather no system of railway administration was in force all the world over. Latterly, some of the Continental nations have been wise enough to adopt a stage system.—l am, etc., Samukl Vaile. Auckland, September 18, 1890.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8365, 19 September 1890, Page 3
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