MAIL EXPRESS TRAIN.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14974, 22 May 1914, Page 3

MAIL EXPRESS TRAIN.

PROPOSED SPEEDING-UP. COUNTRY STATIONS TO BE CUT OUT. At Wednesday's meeting of the •Temuka Borough Council (writes our Tomuka correspondent), Cr. Mclnnes made reference to. the persistent rumour that Temuka was shortly to cease to bo a sfcopping-placo for the mail express train. ■ '. Cr. Gunnion said that there was no -doubt that the rumour was welli founded. ' Tho mail express train, ho behoved, was to raako up two hours on the jouruoy between Invercargill and Christchurch, and this could not be done unless country stations, like Temuka. arid Orari, were ctrt out. Ho understood that the mail train was only to stop at such stations as Gore, Dunedin, Oamanl, Timaru and Ashburton. Thero was to be a new system pi train running. A passonger train was to run from Timaru to Christchurch, and a goods train • between that and the ordinary oxpress. Tho ordinary express would stop at all stations as hitherto. The Council resolved to comniunioatD with the Mayor, Colonel Hnyhurst, who is absent in Wellington, .asking him to take steps to protect •as fatas possible the intorests of Temuka in tho matter. A similar rumour was iv circulation some time ago. when Mr W\ Nosworthy, M.P., wis urged to protect Geraldine's interest by having the mail train stop at Orari as hitherto.