RAILWAY DINING CARS.

NZ Truth, Issue 65, 15 September 1906, Page 4

RAILWAY DINING CARS.

Whose business is it to look alter tie dining car caterers to see that their, contracts are carried: out ? Or Is : \% being everybody's business, nobody, V business ? It is reported that tiie".. dining arrangements oh the cars be^Rreen Auckland and Frankton Junction are m a rotten state. Travelling up to Rotorua one day last week one of our own' particular sat him down m the feeding stall and called firmly and staunchly for fish. There was a little item on the menu namely White Bait Fritters, which our travelling friend had always oonsidered fishy," so to speak. Then the smug waiter' said, quite unconcernedly, what the boy said when asked for the minor portion of his apple, to wit, "There ain't going to be no core," onW this time it was fish that was off. And there wasn't any soup, and the braided chops were cold (and probably only earned their name by passing: through the hands of the brazen-faced . caterer ) and ' the green peas hid theifiselves under the pepper. Altogether Y |ttat dinner wasn't a success and our. almost starved to death friend wants'.to know what the blazes the .Government mean by charging 2s fp ( r, nothing? From What we could gather from our heated friend's vivid statements? I . ; jbhe catering on . the Northern . e^tpi^ss want?, supervising by , someone . in" authority, and 'the Northern express isn't the only one to. which the same remark applies, and with equal force, -too. With regard to which Hon. Hyphenated Jones might, when found, "make a note on."