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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1321, 24 June 1897, Page 23

The classification of railway servants, as provided fur by the Act of I39i>, has bean completed, and Vic result is boing considered by the Minister. 'The Department of Industries and Commerce recent;/ received samples of priuting and writing papers manufactured onto! wood pulp, for which their exi&td a larp.u demand in England. . Mr Fraser is reported to have said at a meeting of the Potone Borough Council oa Monday week thai; hardly on one occasi u for weeks had the workmen's train duo in Wellington from r'ctone each morning at 7.4!) o'clock" a'rived to time. It was, on" an average, 15 minutes late, he said, and the consequenr:o was that the large number of workmen who went into town by that traiu were invariably kite at their work. The ri - sponsible officer at. oiicu .male enquiries in regard to tiu'-se aliogatipns, with the result that we have been rc-«pievite<i to *t:\ie ihar, ou no occasion during t<s>; p'a-t month has tno train iheutionod been inoi'o than four minuted late in arnvi.ig at its <.'.;: tiu.i;vJou. Moth',:, (h'avv,' Wofin '}'.)"U rminnlo? dees not: require the help of any partitive inkdiciiJO to complete the cur;. 1 . i?ive. i'; a trial and be convinced.