PROMISES IGNORED.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1448, 24 May 1912, Page 4

PROMISES IGNORED.

A COMPLAINT FKOM LLYIN. The slopping of Hie up and down Main Trunk express at i.uvui was iuivocaleil by a ih'jnuuiioH lium lluii wlikii ViiUU'U UpOU UlvJ ,Vilhisu:i 101' iiiiliiviijs (llif in.'.i. .v. me iiiiiiiiju-.-, ul '.in; uepumtiou »>«••••«: victors. Jj. K. uuri.entr (.n.iyjr ui Levmj, anil h. !>, J,UliCU?L<.*r yiil'SlUl'lll Ul till: LeVIH ChuiiiUti' ul i uiiiHicnji-), and !L "as m " Iloiiutl.li |JV All'. .!.» JiUUlM'tsUll, M.i', Al pre.-ent. R'.-)Kleni.> ul jA'Viii, il they miss me 8.30 n.m. down train have vo wine una! 4.; i p.m. lor n irtu.i to Uetling!un, 11' they tne 1U a.m. Irani lu J'uilißTsion North they have lu wast uiiill (.'ij p.m. lor llil' lii'Xl train 1j Uku tuuu. 11 tli« Auckland oxprcss stopped al Levin, a last icrvicu woiilii Ire proviucd, couveuioiillv timed Ijotwcoii the Hours iniiicaied. 'iueso ami other ct-MsiUoraUolis were advanced by tho deputation. .Mr. Hardener sunt unit Jur. Millar had promised that the express should slop at lA'vin as soon as a nign-prcssure water :-tippiv was available. -the waier was available now, but the expresses _did not itun 'or passengers. Sir Joseph Ward hau repeated .\ir. Millars promise, hut it hud nit vet been fulfilled. Levin deserved better consideration in this matter. It contained one-i'ourtH of tne whole of the electors in the Otaki oieciorute. Jlr. Lancaster said that tile people of Levin did not like promises being ignored. Six hundred people had petitioned the Government to keep its promise, but no more had been heard of this petition. Mr Hennessey (chairman of the i'oxton Harbour Board), who accompanied the deputation, said that if its request were granted, the people of loxtou would be saved a lot of night tra\ oiling. Mr. Myers remarked that so far as promises were concerned it was difficult for him to say anything. He could only be guided by the Departmental records and files. & promised to look into tho matter raised by the deputation.