The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 61
The Present Position and Future Prospects of the New Zealand Railways, with a Proposed Entirely New Scheme of Levying Fares and Rates
Contents
- [title page]
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- Introduction
- The New Zealand Railways
- [introduction]
- For what purpose our Railways were and ought to be constructed.* p. 8
- Cheap Transit
- Impulse given to Trade
- Labour to Move
- New System of levying Fares and Freights. — Passenger Fares
- Parcels Freight p. 10
- Goods Freight
- Tickets
- Insurance p. 11
- Advertisements
- Estimating the Cost and Probable Results p. 13
- Stages instead of Mileage p. 16
- Reductions too extreme p. 17
- Not Sufficient Population
- Railway Boards p. 19
- The Broad Lines p. 20
- Make the Towns Pay
- £8,000,000 or £10,000,000 p. 21
- The Great Bar to the Rapid Settlement of the Country p. 23
- The Differential Rating System.*
- Secresy is Essential p. 25
- Railway Rating Expert p. 27
- Political Rating
- Our Only Safety p. 28
- Unmixed Scoundrelism p. 29
- Railway Reform League's Petition.*
- A Commercial and Financial One p. 30
- Vast Expansion of Trade p. 31
- Vast Mine of Wealth p. 32
- Cheap and Pleasant Home
- In Conclusion
- Tariff of Fares and Rates — Under the Proposed System. — Auckland.—Southern Line. Table of Railway Fares and Rates p. 34
- Stations
- Parcels Freight p. 35
- Goods Freight
- Report on Mr. Vaile's Proposals Respecting Railway Rates and Fares
- [discussion] p. 53
- Appendix. — Extracts From a Paper on the Influence of the Means of Transit on the Social Condition of the People
- [extracts]
- This Question of the Unequal Distribution of Wealth p. 56
- Differential Rating p. 57
- The British Capital p. 58
- Against Local Producers p. 60
- Massing up the People p. 61
- The Land Tenure p. 62
- Liverpool
- Breaking Up of the Large Estates p. 64
- One Great Evil p. 65
- Crushes Out the Small Producer p. 66
- Labour to Move
- As Regards Speed p. 68
- Conclusion