WAIRARAPA TRAINS & SUBURBAN TRAVELLERS.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2783, 30 May 1916, Page 6

WAIRARAPA TRAINS & SUBURBAN TRAVELLERS.

Sirr-The Wairarapa residents who proposed to the Minister of Railways that the morning train from Masterton should make a non-stop run from Upper Hutt to Lambton, aud repeat this performance 011 the return Journey in the afternoon, were surely a little selfish, aud had no senso of proportion in advocating this scheme. Do they realise that if this train is cut out there would bo no chance of residents between Upper .Hutt mid Lower Hutt getting to town until nearly 2 p.m., thert being no other train from Upper Hutt between 8.37 a.m. and 12.52 p.m. J presume the mail train from tho Wairarapa in the evening is their ideal service, as there is no suburban traffic allowed by it, and yet it takes forty-eight minute*- on the run from Upper Hutt. The morning train does it in fifty-eight minutes, and thiTS, in order to have ten minutes longer in town these impatient Wairarapa gentlemen would deprive the largo population in this upper portion of the valley, including Trentham Camp, of the service; of this train! The Minister assuredly was "speaking by the book" when he predicted a big protesting deputation from tho Valloy residents if ho granted such an unreasonable proposal.

Tiio same contention applies to the afternoon, train to Masterton. The nonstop suburban run would enablo the Wairnrapn people to Ret home nine minutes earlier, and the Cam]) and the Upper Hutt residents would have no train between 2.10 p.m. and 5.12 p.m. Where is the sense of proportion in such claims from, level-headed business melt in these days when everybody is preachin? economy? They must know that y? the Minister granted their request it would mean additional expense in replacing these trains with others to meet tho Camp and suburban traffic, and such extravagance would scarcely be tolerated for t). 16 of givinj; Wairarapa visitors an extra ten or twenty minutes in town. —I am etc., CA' CANNY.