New Zealand Railways.

Otago Witness, Issue 2455, 3 April 1901, Page 17

New Zealand R ail ways.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —May I ask if it is the usual custom of the railway officials in this country to disreard any complaint made in writing to them? On February 2 last I wrote to the traffic manager at Napier us follows-—"I was a passenger by the 2 p.m. train from Napier to Te Aute on Wednesday, 30th, but as I intended to stop at Hastings I inquired at Napier whether I must take two tickets, or if the one would do, pud was informed that it would, but that the fare would be just the same as if I took the two On travelling by the same train on Friday, the Ist, from Hastings my ticket was refused by the guard, and 2s 6d was demanded. It seems to me that this is hardly just treatment, when all that a stranger to the colony can do is to make the inquiries which I made at Napier, and I trust to hear from you that a mistake has been made. To this I received no reply, which one would have thought o.:e was entitled to, even as a matter of courtesy. At all events such would have been the ease in every other country in the world that I have travelled in, and they are many. By publishing this in your valuable paper it will serve as a warning to other travellers aa to the treatment they may expect from the New Zealand railway officials, who agpear to do all they can to discourage travelling over their lines.—l am, CHAS. A. SCOTT WATSON. Wellington, March 29.