The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 72

Railways and social conditions; the Vaile stage system as proposed for adoption in Great Britain, the Colonies, and similar countries, described and illustrated by a diagram

Contents

• Railway and Social Conditions
  • • [title page]
    • Index
  • • Vaile's Stage System of Railway Administration
      • [subsection]
      • Opinions of the Press
      • Opinions of Railway Experts p. 8
    • Brief History of the Railway Reform Movement in New Zealand
    • The Railway Problem. — Introduction to Third Pamphlet
    • Railways and Social Conditions
      • [subsection]
      • The First Want of Society p. 17
      • Invisible Turnpikes p. 18
      • The Right Use of Railways p. 19
      • Distant Land p. 20
      • Our Social Troubles
      • How it Works p. 22
      • Trade Depressions p. 23
      • Why the Evil Effects were Not Sooner Felt p. 24
      • Disadvantages of the Present System p. 25
      • Enforced Idleness p. 26
      • The Farmers' Trouble
      • Low Prices and Poverty
      • A Complicated and Secret System p. 28
      • 'Scale of Fares, Rates, and Charges on the New Zealand Government Railways.' p. 29
      • Some of its Beauties
      • How Different Districts are Treated p. 31
      • Internal Trade p. 32
      • The Universal Fare p. 33
      • The Basis of Rating p. 34
      • London and North Western Line p. 35
      • Financial Results p. 36
      • Effect on Land Values
      • What We Really Want p. 38
      • How We can Get it p. 39
      • Diagram of Auckland Lines
      • Tariff of Fares and Rates for the Auckland Section p. 43
      • Examples
      • Goods Rates
      • Parcels Rates
      • Passenger's Fares p. 44
      • Financial Results p. 45
      • Why the New System is Not Tried p. 51
      • Auckland and Wellington Ports p. 52
      • Have We Sufficient Population?
      • Cost of Trying the Stage System p. 54
      • The Control of Our Railways p. 55
      • Concluding Remarks p. 58
      • Mr. J. P. Maxwell's Report p. 59
      • 1885. New Zealand. D-3. — Report on Mr. Vaile's Proposals Respecting Railway Rates and Fares. — The Hon. the Minister for Public Works
    • Whose Opinion Should be Taken? p. 64
• The Railway Problem in New Zealand p. 1
  • The Railway Reform League Proposes:— — 1. The Total Abolition of Differential Rating. — Differential Rating p. 1
  • A few Examples p. 5
    • [introduction] p. 5
    • London and North-Western Line
    • Cork and Bandon Line
    • Birkenhead Railway
• The Railway Problem in New Zealand
  • No. 1
  • No. 2 p. 4
  • Railways: Mr. G. Findlay's Book p. 7
  • The Railway Problem in New Zealand. — No. 3
    • [introduction]
    • What We Want p. 2
  • No. 5. — The Difference between Mileage and Stage Rating p. 4
    • [introduction] p. 4
    • Mr. S. Vaile to the Chairman, Railway Management Committee p. 5
  • No. 6. — The Difference between Mileage and Stage Rating, Continued p. 6
  • No. 7. — Financial Results p. 8
  • No. 8. — Financial, Results, Continued p. 11
  • No. 9. — The Financial Argument, Concluded p. 14
  • Correspondence Relative to Railway Reform League's Proposals p. 16

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