SPEED UP THOSE TRAINS!

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1416, 17 April 1912, Page 6

SPEED UP THOSE TRAINS!

ONLY FOURTEEN MILES PER HOUfi. (By Telesraph—Special Correspondent.) Feilding, April IG. The most important matter dealt with at tho meeting of .tho Feilding Chamber of Commerce this week related to railway trains and traffic, and a hope was expressed that the new Minister i'or Eailways will use his own discretion in dealing with railway improvements, instead of allowing Departmental officers to dictate tho railway policy. . Adverse comment was made on the fact that the main passenger trains between Palmerston and Wauganui took four and a half hours to travel over u'3 reik-s of railway, and it was contended tint thero should not bo the slightest difficulty in "speeding up" these trains at ;n,y rate, especially considering that thero are six, and often eight, goods trains traversing the route daily. Mr. Myers htul alrca.ly arranged that Auckland-llclensvillc train, which takes two hours fifty minutes to travel 38 miles (about tho same tpcert as tho Wanganui-Palmcrston train) shall lie "speeded up" by fifty minutes. If this improvement were applied to the Wanganui service it would shorten tho journey by about one hour and ten minutes. Tho question of a morning train to P.ilmerston, and a night train back to Feilding, to connect with (ho .different train services going friiriV 'and arriving at Palmerston, was also advocated as very important to Feilding, and its busy district. Tho meeting appointed Messrs. 1 red. Piraiii (president), ]). H. Guthrie, M.P., and John Cobbo as a deputation to place these matters before tho Minister for Railways in Wellington.