The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1889. MOUNT SOMERS TRAIN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2283, 18 November 1889, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1889. MOUNT SOMERS TRAIN.

Tho alteration made by the Railway Commissioners recently with respect to the time-table on tho Mount Homers branch railway, though an improvement upon the arrangement subsisting before the change was made, is yet not alto-

gothor satisfactory. The train leaving Ashburton m the evening for Mount tfomers and Springburn, is timed, to leave here at 4.25, and arrives at Mount Somers at 6 p.m. This is twenty minutes earlier than was formerly the case, and is inconvenient m more ways than one. It practically means that country residents visiting town oa business must, whether their business be finished or no, start for the station at about 4 o'clock, and it is often a rush to be able to do this. Another half-hour would be very desirable, and if the train started at 4.55, Mount Somers would be reached at 6.30 and bpringburu at 6.45, quite soon enough, especially during the summer months, Then again the present state of things has another unpleasant result, via, that either the evening paper must go to press without the latest news m order to catch the train, thus depriving country readers of news which they ought to get, or the risk must be run of being too late for the train, which is every now and then, consequently, the case. On all grounds therefore, it ia desirable that, if during the summer months only, the train time sbould be put back half an hour, and as this could be done without m any way interfering with the main line time-table, we hope that the Commissioners will see their way to accede to the request of a memorial now m course of signature, praying that the alteration suggested may bo made.