FEILDING.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 692, 17 December 1909, Page 3

FEILDING.

Tho Mam Trunk express to Auckland, which passes through Pcildiug 111 tho early hours of the morning, has had an unfortunate experience 111 ono lespect—tho inabihtj ot officials at non-stop stations to keep awake in older to pass tho tablet On Wednesday morning tho express was over an hour late, being dclnjcd at Teildmg owing to an official At a station further down tho lino suddcnl> discovering that ho had been sleeping away the early ' hours instead of being on dutj. It must bo oxtronicl) difficult, cipeciallj at lonclj stations, for a man not othorwiso occupied to ' keep awake in the "silent watches of tho night" for tho ono especial task. Commenting on this incident the raiding paper says; "It seems a defect in the sj6tcrn that provision is not possiblo to cut out such stations from tho tablet service No modern system should be like the laws of tho Medes and Persians—unalterable " The Rev C. E Bcccioft, chairman of tho Wanganui District Synod of tho Wesleyan * ' Churcn, left yesterdoj for Tailiapc, where ho , is to lay a foundation block'of a now church , building to lie erected there Tho Rov 1\ 1 Copoland, a formcL minister of Taihape, will laj another block ,