AGITATION FOR NEW STATION.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1428, 1 May 1912, Page 5

AGITATION FOR NEW STATION.

EDUCATION BOAED CO-OPERATES. A short discussion took plaoe at the Education Board meeting yesterday on the subject of the- agitation initiated by the Wellington City Council for a newrailway station at Wellington. The board was invited, in a letter from the council, to co-operate by sending representatives to a deputation which was beinj* arranged for the purpose of interviewing the Government on the subject. Mr. W. C. Buchanan, M.P., demurred to the implied suggestion that this matter was the foremost railway question in I the district, Much more important rail--1 way questions than that of a new station at Wellington were awaiting settlement, and should take a foremost place. As a couufry representative, he desired to say that he was prepared to aubmif, publicly, anywhere, a very formidable statement iu support of railway reforms in various directions. (Hear, hear.) Mr. A. W. Hogs said emphatically that the city railway station was the shabbiest attached to any centre in New ealand, and the board should assist' the City Council to get a new and convenient station established as speedily as possible. Mr. Tile said that if matters sr< foreign to questions of education as a railway swtion agitation were- admitted for discussion at the board table he would ask his colleagues to devote some attention to an agitation for a Rimutaka deviation. (Laughter.) Messrs. R. Lee (chairman), ,T. G. W. Aitken, Wm. Allan, and W. H. Field were appointed to represent the board on tho deputation.