RAILWAY RETURNS.
UNFAIR CRITICISMS. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Feb. 26. 5 In an interview to-day the Hon. W. ' H. Herries, after stating increases and improved conditions granted to em- j ployees on the railways by the Govern. | ment, said that a good deal o fcriticism •; had been levelled at the Department ( owing to the fact that the percentage !j of working expenses to eaa-nings was) abnormally high, , while the estimated I revenue had fallen very much short of I the forecast. Since the forecast was I made the epidemic and the 1 strike had, had a disastrous effect on | the railway revenue. The tendenqy to ) increase operating expenses was not peculiar to New Zealand. Had normal conditions prevailed the revenue would have come uip to expectations and the ; percentage of working expenses to revenue would not have shown- a 1 material advance on the percentages ■; for last year. The attempt to fix on 1 the Government responsibility for ; shortages in revenue was ungerierous [ and unjustifiable. j
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Timaru Herald, Volume C, Issue 15284, 27 February 1914, Page 2
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166RAILWAY RETURNS. Timaru Herald, Volume C, Issue 15284, 27 February 1914, Page 2
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