DOMINION RAILWAYS.
MINISTER INTERVIEWED. {By Telegraph—tress Associatum.} WELLINGTON, Last Nigth. In an interview to-day, the HonW. H. Hemes (Minister of Railways), after stating that increases and improved conditions had been granted employees on the railways by the present Government, said that a good deal of criticism had been levelled at the Department owing to the fact that the precentage of working expenaes'to the earnings is abnormally high, while the estimated revenue had fallen very much short of the forecast. Since the'forecast had been made, the smallpox epidemic and the strike had a disastrous effect on the railway revenue. The tendency to increase the operating expenses was not .peculiar to NewZealand, and had normal conditions prevailed the revenue would have come up to expectation, and the percentage of working expenses to the revenue would not have shown any material advance on the percentages for the last year. The attempt to fix on the Government the responsibility for the shortages in revenue was ungenerous and unjustifiable.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 27 February 1914, Page 5
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