RAILWAY MUDDLING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15265, 1 April 1913, Page 4

RAILWAY MUDDLING.

j Sir,—-Tho leading article on the above in the Heeald ■. gave ,mo unqualified satisfac- ' lion. Take two moire instances. -..A' year or ' two ago. when .the railways were under Mr. Miller I brought out for my] son, in whoso house I, lire, two lengths of down * sipouting for his tank. I am allowed to . carry 1121b of luggage; I had 121'b, of which r the spouting was 71b. Being only 6ft in B jen gth, they went easily under the seat, or . in tho rack; bat because they wore -'house i'urmshings" I had to pay Is, or half my ■ own return fare from Psipatootoo. The other • (lay I had to pjjy: 2d more for a return 9 ticket fron hero to Romucra than is paid • to Auckland, three miles further;' 2d more , for" carrying me six miles loss. The im- , lMcihcy of such regulations would bo ,imf possible for a Sootohniian or an Irishman, 1 lbut for the Englishman living, as he does, on a diet of red tape, it ib not to be , wonI dored at. If there are two ways of doing anything-—one sensible and th© other stupid i the English official will always .. take the 1 at up id one. _ The- Government is to be con--9 gratulated in going outside the Dominion : 'lor a railway manager, thus relieving the public of out-of-date ana fossilised methods. B" ' PapatQGtoe, Mapch 28. J. "W. Kenah. 1