Inter-Mountain Republican | 1907-08-30 | Page 8 | New Zealand Railroad Rates.

1111 class First passenger rates in iii New Zealand average about 3 Z cents a mile and second clasp rates about 2 cents There are special rates for school and amid factory excursions and there are season sea sea- son tickets anti and other ether concessions but 90 go per cent of the the- passengers are re car cam ned ried at ordinary fares while SO per cent of them travel second class elas It Is probable then that time the average a tare fare per mile Is 1st In tilts the neighborhood of 2 cents and therefore there there- fore about the some same as in the United States There are no night trains f the service on most of Limo tho lines If h rather Infrequent The best IC ice In Iii New Zealand is that between Chr anti and Dunedin where them are two tso express trains dally daIly at a speed of twenty five rules miles in na hour On Omi most of ot tho ti-mo other lines express trains travel from If- If trOll teen to twenty one miles mile an hour and ordinary trains from ten to fourteen miles an hour first class carriages car car- compare favorably with chair cars cams In the tue United States but second second- class accommodation is very poor and the tho carriages are generally over crowded It is impossible to make an accurate ac or- curate estimate of height freight rates in New Zealand hut they are probably at least 4 cent per ton toll as 18 compared corn com pared with 66 per er ton mile the average for time the railways of the United States Time The ton however is the long ton of 2240 pounds It Is worth noting that more than 90 per cent of all freight handled by Now Zealand railways Is carried at time the owners owners' risk and amid that has delays amid losses from rota shortage shortage short short- age of cars cams and other causes are arc common coalITion In iii fact thu expenses of shipment are so great that goods which are aio soul at reasonable prices in the tho seaport towns aro very j alvo In tile Interior and the development develop develop- meat ment of the tho country is thereby greatly great great- ly 13 retarded