RAILWAY ANOMALIES.
SuypAt 1 last the present stupid timetable is to.be.discontinued. ' Nobody asked, for it, and everybody, strongly' i)rotested'against.it as.soon as it was made,known, but'it.was pushed on.to the-public in.a high-handed fashion. What the Napier and Hastings .people: did ask for was to run the mail ; train by Mauawatu instead of'Kimutaka,..and'..to sp&d up a little if possible, and this'other, thing was brought :in.. If the Minister for Kailways: is'to: decide all the time-tables,: and how- much interest, the railways .are" , -to pay, then let us dose 'down : . Parliament and let the Executivo rnn the country entirely.. .'At. present the'people of Hastings and , Napier are charged - Is. 2d. single and 2s."'ld.'return to go .twelve miles, from one town to.; the other. There" are no workers', trains, : and no train after a quarter past six from Napier to Hastings on' weok nights. Given , reasonable fares and'a night train, the traffic would be very great, , as ; the two ' towns are very much dopende'nt on each other in every respect. A workers' train ought to. be given' a fair trial.—l am, etc., .',..■■ i■ . : . ..'..■■!.■■■". :: GIVETTS JTJSTICE. - : ! . Hastings; February, 4-; ' : , ■.■.-■ ■•-:
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 737, 9 February 1910, Page 6
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183RAILWAY ANOMALIES. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 737, 9 February 1910, Page 6
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