N.Z. RAILWAYS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 48, Issue 14611, 9 March 1922, Page 5

N.Z. RAILWAYS.

BAD R/SAMAGEIVIEAiT. MORE SEVERE CRITICISM. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. The conduct of ithe railway service came in for some severe criticism at a meeting of the general committee of the Canterbury A. and P. Association to-day. ’The matter was introduced by Mr --- E. Alexander, director of Lincoln Agricultural College. “The commercial travellers, at thieir conference,’’ he said, “made ithe brilliant suggestion that the railways should be sold. I think wo should endorse that suggestion. The present position is that everybody is grumbling about the railways’ management I rang up last week for trucks to take stock to the Ashburton show, and was told I was too late. Last year I enquired at the same time, and was told I was too early. At the present time, if anyone wants a (truck lie has to go to the Railway Department, cap in hand, a fortnight before he wants the truck. This Association should call together a meeting of some sort to protest against the present- mismanagement of the railways, for tilings are go.ng from bad to worse. The result of it all is that nobody will make use of the railways, and in consequence they are not paying—they are not being run to pay.. I haven’it met a man at the present time who has not grumbled about railway mismanagement. ’

After further remarks it was decided that the present position of the railways should be discussed at the annual meeting of the Association.