Train Arrangements

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 99, 5 February 1885, Page 2

Train Arrangements

The inconvenience of the present train service as compared with that of the past was amply exemplified yesterday. As the mail coach — owing probably to tho bad weather prevailing on the coast — missed tho afternoon train from Foxton, the Wellington mails for the north did not come through. Under existieg arrangements our portion will not reach us until to-night. If the previous service obtained we would have had the mails to hand by the morning train from Foxton, and a day's delay in answering letters would thus have been saved. Wo venture to think that before any material alteration is made in the railway time-table, or in the train service generally, tho public ought to be informed of such intention for a few weeks beforehand, in order that those who are most interested — the public — might have an opportunity of ex-

pressing an opinion, through the medium of the Press, as to whether the proposed changes were desirable. After all it is the public that pays. Tho saving of 24 miles a day in the running of a train in the course of a hundred years will make a considerable aggregate wo admit, but the immediate benefits would more that compensate for the future saving. We think the General Manager of Railways has erred on the side of economy, and should retrace his steps. In the meantime wo would suggest that, when emergencies like the present arise, the postmaster at Foxton be authorised to forward the mails by some other conveyance to Palmerston in time to catch the train from thence to Wanganui on tho following morning.