The Star. SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1891. The Railway Three.
Thk week has been marked by the long-expected visit of the Railway Commissioners to Chrißtchurch. Following the reading of the memorandum prepared by the Chamber of Commerce and the associated bodies, the discussion that ensued thoroughly ventilated the grievances under which it is considered tbia part of the Colony labours. In the matter of uniform and differential rates, the Commissioners were fairly cornered, and hud to confess that their treatment of the rates on the Fort Chalmers and Dunedin and Dunedin and Oamaru sections was eiruply dictated by expediency. It is something at least to have wrung from them euch an admission, but whether the representations of the deputation will only be "kept steadily in view" or will eventually bear fruit time only can 6how. Having begun the attack and delivered such, an effective broadside, it is to be hoped the Chamber and the other bodies will not quietly subside into a state of Eip Van Winkelism, but will also keep the matter steadily in view, enlivening the Commissioners with an occasional kick to assist their iorpid digestion of the facts and figures set before them.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7065, 17 January 1891, Page 2
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