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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12932, 31 July 1905, Page 6

} , Our London correspondent, writing on j j June 23, : —Mr. T. Ronayne. I | general manager of (he New Zealand . j Government railways, lias arrived ; from Washington, where he duly at- | tended the International Railway Congress. ] During his stay in the United States, Mr. : I Ronayne had the opportunity of investigat- ; ing many matters connected with American railway work. The conclusion impressed : upon him as the result was that things are done there very expensively : that much of the'provision for passenger traffic. is quite ! needlessly costly, and that an excess of | luxury is afforded which would really not | bo missed if it were absent, and whose j presence is little appreciated because it add* j hardly anything to the substantial comfort | of travellers, while of its enormous costliness there can be no doubt whatever. He thinks, on the whole, that allowing for the difference of circumstances, ■ the New Zealand railways hold a very creditable position, even when compared with the railways j . of America and England.