WAIKANAE HAS A GRIEVANCE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 754, 1 March 1910, Page 4

WAIKANAE HAS A GRIEVANCE.

! bir.-r-AJlpwi.mo.'spaccfor-a .feivvlines in your valuablp,-paper to let: tho'Minister for - Railways' , ' digest. ; We' at" , Waikanao are the worst treated along the line. I always maintained that if tho:'Government took this lino over our services would be rotten, and now we hnve it. Wo are only 36 miles from the Empiro City and yet any one who' should come up to stay.at.the beach, Otaihanga, or Reikorangi must pack up and havo their children ready to be at the Waikanao Station by 9.50 a.m.,. or else they will not got to. Wellington till-7.30. p.m. tho same day. The same thing occurs-if yon go to Otaki sale or on business. "i"ou got;to Otaki at. 11.30 a.m., but can't get .back till 5.30 p.m. Waikanae does not want any extra train to run as there are nbout 20 trains pass to and fro in a day._ All wo want is two or three to stop, as they often do now, which does hot seem to inconvenience them on their time-table. Settlers and friends,. how-' ever, do not now know when they are going to stop. ;l have seen tho Auckland and Napier mails stop, and if they stopped regularly it would be the very thing. Now,' Waikanao is fast'becoming a week-end place on account' of fishing and shooting, us well as a place of commerce seeing throo of tho largest auctioneers' firms Kolling on ono day. Trusting more able pens than mine will ventilate their views on the matter—l am, etc., ■ . WAIKANAE.