STATION FOR WELLINGTON.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 86, 12 April 1911, Page 7

STATION FOR WELLINGTON.

RAILWAY FACILITIES. A COMMERCIAL VIEW. Further reference to the necessity for a new central railway station at Wellington was made by the President of the Chamber of Commerce (Mr. H. C. Tewsley) at the annual meei'ing today. "Early in the year," he said, "it was decided that the chamber, in concert with the City Council and Harbour Board, should approach the Prime Minister with a view to seeing if somsthing could nob be done to endeavour to /get come satisfactory promice from the Government that would, enable Wellington to have a railway station suitable to its growing lequirements. It was particularly pointed euti that we did not want an elaborate or ornate building, but something that would provide for the. simple wants of those arriving or leaving the \arious stations. t-ir Joseph Ward met us in his usual pleusant way and expressed himself as b&iug in full sympathy with the desire of the deputation, and wound up by saying that ■within the nexb few months he would be able to decide as to hoy; far he- could meet us in this matter. This, however, is th© extent i'o which, it has got, as far as we know, and we are still in as un&atkftetory a position as we w?re before. Ib is interesting: to know that in February. 1903, Sir William nail-Jones. I'heii Minister for Railways, wrote and told 1 us that the matter was then engaging the Government's attention, and hod been so for some time page. This is as far as we have got. Seeing that in the near future Wellington wUI probably provide the starting point of , several fast ferry services— to LytLalton, to Pioton, to Sydney, and possibly to 'Frisco and Vancouver, we should he ; in the forefront in making the necessary provisien to see. that they get tho quickest possible despatch."