NAPIER-WELLINGTON RAILCAR SERVICE

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 184, 1 May 1940, Page 5

NAPIER-WELLINGTON RAILCAR SERVICE

Suggested Convenience For Business People Dominion Special Service. HASTINGS, Napier 30. The inauguration of a railcar service between Napier and 'Wellington to enable Hawke’s Bay business men to reduce to the minimum tlie period of their absence, is to be urged ou tlie Railways Department by the Hastings Retailers’ Association. Mr. J. E. Jones suggested at a meeting of the association that a railear leaving Napier at 5 p.m. or 6 p.m., and arriving iu Wellington about 10 p.m. would be well patronized. With the petrol restrictions many business people found it necessary to do a good deal of travelling by rail, he said. Assuming a man had only one day’s business to transact in Wellington, at present he had to be absent from Hastings for three days. If a service such as lie suggested were introduced, with a return service from Wellington leaving late in the afternoon, it would be possible to spend the whole day in the city with the loss of only one day’s business. Even if the service were run only three days a week at the outset as a trial it would, be felt certain, prove popular.