Rail Travel in England and New Zealand

“I have often heard complaints of the New Zealand railways, but, taking into consideration the difference in cost between first-class accommodation in England and the Dominion, I would give them a flat contradiction,” said Mr. Arthur Rose, who returned to Christchurch recently from an extended trip abroad. “In England,” he explained, “you have to pay about 2 1/4 d. a mile for travel, against only about l 1/2d. in New Zealand. I am satisfied that if the New Zealand public was prepared to pay the same rate as in England, our railways would hold their own.”—(From the Christchurch “Press.”)