From Thomas Calcutt, Farmer, Goodmood.

Replying to your Circular of the 15th inst., re Management of Railways, I am strongly in favour of their being worked as at present. Seventeen years of my life was spent as Land Purchase Officer for Railways, and Steward of Railway Reserves, These duties gave me an insight into various points, and I have a lively recollection of instances in which political pressure was brought to bear so strongly as to make it most difficult for a Minister to withstand, and I should be sorry to see the position revived.