ENLISTING SUPPORT.

Waikato Times, Volume 101, Issue 16947, 9 November 1926, Page 7

ENLISTING SUPPORT.

RAILWAY DEPARTMENT'S SCHEME "SPIRIT OF CO-OPERATION." A strenuous effort is being made by the Railway Department to capture public sympathy in railway matters. A circular letter putting forth a scheme to encourage the establishment of district advisory boards in order to form a common meeting ground between the users of. the railway and the Railway Department for the better understanding of railway problems and* to engender a spirit of co-operation and mutual assistance, was received at the Waikato County Council meeting this morning. Some of the suggested conditions of establishment are that the advisory hoards should deal with transportation problems, and all matters of mutual concern to the user and to the Railway Department. The associations arc to be voluntary, the organisation to depend upon public opinion supporting its activities. Complaints and suggestions would receive immediate attention, and would be adjusted to the saisfacllon of the public, or substantial reasons given as to why such course was not possible. The Department would undertake to give freely information of public interest on railway matters, to acknowledge frankly any disabilities, and to advise what was being done to adjust them. The boards should consist of representatives of the various interests and public bodies, and representatives from committees set up at other towns within tho jurisdiction of the hoard.