ACROSS THE SOUTH ISLAND

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1597, 14 November 1912, Page 6

ACROSS THE SOUTH ISLAND

gir,-A Chfistchureit -felegrani, Under.' the above ..heading in your issu.o pf.to-dby, referring to a deputation- cpiisisttnfr or Sir Arthur Gtuinnesis. and '■ Sir, T. H. Dayey, M.P., to tie Hob. R. S. Heaioii Bhodes, Posimfeter-Geiieral, asking for a ! daily Coach' service between. Otirtt and Bealey Flat, profcably abbreviated, does. ! not appear-to do either tli« Minister or the importance of' -the subject, justice., ! There certainly Was aft jinpression that tho' line Would be opened to Bealqy Mat this year* This probably arose from a. yeply to'a question asked in. the House, The lints. appears' completed, even to the erection of Hie station buildings, to Bealey Flat.' The .Minister, howi;<er, in his reply, states that it would be sometime before the station was djpeiifed. Why? Your. correspondent would like to point out that eft the ist inst. there , Were over 100 through passangirs. froni Gfeymouth fa) Chfistchufch. It rained heavily, durijng tfie'five hours' ride torn Qttra to ■tiass. '' Fortunately there was Toom for ; the females' inside, the coaches, hut the. males halto sifpjit in tlidjfain , nil the way* ..ir'heti.nQt .cl.i.TttWng the Alps on foot •iyery fe.W : ;Sverfr' pfepjfed" for wintry weiu ■•:tlier.;'.".'flii,<i'wiU Rirayou sonie idea of ;.then«CMS!.ty. £br the line at the : cariietf' ! W ! ny«hiff.nce.: VJ 'M.r. C: W. Moss. ■Who"regijlhted. thb."i|affip. , :for / Cdbp and :CoJ 'ii .'the (Greyni'pjiili'en.d;. doe? ey'.<i,ry-' ;thiße"po'fsiKlo'for tliis'isonvenWnce of pas-