RAILWAY MANAGEMENT.
TO THE BDITOE. Sir,— The passenger rates have been raised to meet the larger outlay for material necessary for the construction and upkeep of the railways. This is an age of travel. . The more travelling, the more money is circulated, to the benefit of trades in all parts ; therefore, why not encourage railway travelling? Many thousands of people wait for the excursion trains, not being able to afford the ordinary fares. If the fares were sufficiently lowered, the masses would travel far more frequently and regularly, and the passenger traffic would bo enormously increased, and ever increasing. To bring about this reform, excursion trains, with their worries and dangers, concessions of every kind,-'time limits, etc., would have to be abolished, and, in their stead, all tho year round a fixed charge of one penny per mile, first-claes, id per mile, second-class, might be imposed. Common sense would suggest that it was worthy of a. trial. —I am, etc.. October 4. ifl.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3212, 6 October 1915, Page 61
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