A TRAVELLER'S COMPLAINT

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1813, 28 July 1913, Page 4

A TRAVELLER'S COMPLAINT

Sir,—By inserting the following you will confer a great favour on many who travel by the Manawatu train. The present stopping place in Wellington is most inconvenient ufld is unquestionably a great hardship on business men and hundreds of others. The present Government are, I am sure, doing their best in trying to accommodate tho public who travel bv the railways. If the Minister in charge could see his way to have the trains stop at the Wairarapa station it would be conferring <u great boon on those who travel by the Manawatu line. I know it is very . hard to satisfy ' the public at large, especially us in Wellington. There is often to be heard a cry about our railways, tramways, and the high prices of food stuffs, and rents; but if some of those disaffected citizens had to travel- through the up-country towns as I have they would havo that impression removed that living • commodities were cheaper and better up country. It may seem strange, but it s true, that meat, butter, and cheese, where they are grown are dearer thau in Wellington. In Eketahuna the residents bitterly complain of the high prices charged for meat which are higher than in Wellington and inferior to the Wellington meat. Butter and cheose made in tnat district can be purchased cheaper in Wellington than in Eketahuna, We in Wellington are well off.—l am, etc., L.T.S.