Personal Contact the Solution.

It would be his endeavour on every occasion to do as he had been able to do that day—to come into immediate contact with those who used the railways. The aspirations of all parties being the same, they had only to get together in order to secure that fruitfulness of ideas that resulted from an exchange of opinions, and in that way fewer difficulties would arise in the future. To the best of his ability he would give the most careful consideration to every problem put to him. He hoped to do his work impersonally and without any feeling against any person who might find it necessary to represent strongly any matter on which that person might feel strongly. It would be his endeavour to give sympathetic consideration to everything that was placed before him. There were always two sides to a question (applause) page 11 and he had had the opportunity to realise, in his own personal experience, the other side of the question.