RAILWAY TIME-TABLE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3106, 11 June 1881, Page 3

RAILWAY TIME-TABLE.

[To the Editor of the Daily Telegraph.] Sis, —I notice in your issue of Thursday. 9th instant, a sdb-leader commenting on a proposed new railway time-table. As a resident of the Seventy-mile Bush 1 can safely state that the proposed alteration will give every satisfaction in this district, supposing the morning train to leave Makotoko about 7 a.m., and the evening through train to leave Napier at 3. p.m. Taking your objections in the order tbey appear we And the delivery of sea-borne mails might not be delivered at stations south of Hastings on the day of arrival in Napier. This is a matter of indifference, considering that the' Union Company's steamers arrive but once a week, and that the post offices are closed at 5 p.m., and mails leaving Napier by the present 4.30 train do not arrive in time to be delivered the same day. An fsrlier train would be an advantage in h "-* respect, as the steamers often arrive 1 midday, and their mails could v • c delivered before the closing of "T offices. As regards passengers, the ■*• time-table is very inconvenient, the early hour of departure and at this end of the line. It i-orne in mind that the travelling about this district reie dietance from the stations my cases six and eiabt miles— o catch the present morning one must be on the road by clock, and if returning the same • lid have to ride home after 8 p.m. quite sufficient to deter many from ■* a journey by rail unless really i_ry, irrespective of the danger of filing by rail through the unfenced '■■■ft track at night, with the probability oi being thrown off the line by one of the numerous animals that constantly camp there. I cannot see that any inconvenience will be caused by people having to leave town before the closing of the banks at 3 p.m. I imagine the business will be more with the merchants and other dealers in ; stores than with the bankers, and if the proposed time-table passengers to arrive in Napier by 11 a.m., and to leave at 3 p m., surely four hours is sufficient for that, and those who have a press of business would probly prefer to remain in town all night rather than be travelling for fifteen of twenty hours. Although there may have been no public complaints made "cainst the present time-table, it is only ~ .cessary to ask the opinion of residents •■jreto find that there has been plenty of private grumbling. The present table was made favorable for business people snd others residing at Hastings and . Farndon to enable them to arrive in town by business hour, and to return to their homes after business hours, while this ;C and was quietly ignored so far as 'ravelling convenience was concerned ; *>ut, knowing that the greatest food was being done for the iitest number, it, would have been [ to have made a public com- ■>* vat. The proposed time-table cvi- . Ply promises to be a convenience to * "*Uhout inconveniencing the Hastings ■JjgjJ, and considering the amount of iD«r traffic that goes from this end, ? tfhich is acknowledged to be tbe •lain stay of the Napier line, it is only reasonable that some consideration should be given us in the matter of travelling convenience. As regards a train leaving !Napier at 3 p.m. two ypars ago, and *»eing found inconvenient, I can only £ ue it to have been a last train, and this caused inconvenience to those residing at Hastings; but the train to leav? Napier at 3 p.m., as mentioned by you, would certainly not be the last to Hastings, and the only inconvenience I can skj would be that those who now receive the evening paper by train south of HastiLcrff would have to wait for the morning tmi_. The present time-table may suit those north of Waipukurau, '*nt I emphatically deny that it does or •r did those residing south of that place. Trusting I have not trespassed , too much on your space,—l am, &c, A Voice from the Bush. Takipau, June 10, 1881.