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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 853, 27 June 1910, Page 8

■ 'Die pfcsciit system of ■ illuminating llio Xew I'lymouih, Xnpier, iintl Main Trunk trains, moving out of Tliorudon, is the lniiclon of a complaint from ■'(•onoral Traveller." The letter alleges iliat shortly after the .Minister for Railways instituted liis retrenchment policy, tile illuminating power of oath car was cut, down to two lighis. Later, as there was no complain!, made by passengers, each car was still further reduced to one illuminant. The result is extreme annoyance to these passengers, who may lie deep in a magazine or newspaper, hut who are intermittently debarred from rending through being in partial darkness when Uio trains are in the tunnels, ft would bo a very easy matter, adds our correspondent, for the guards to give tho carriages proper lighting power when that commodity is most required, and reduce it. afterwards. Another correspondent writes complaining of the want of first-class smoking room space, generally on the Main Trunk trains. He idlogos thai on ilk- Main Trunk express, which arrived in Wellington on Saturday, there were only lil'teen seats in the only lirstcla&s smoker.