Halcombe Refreshment Rooms

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 7, 2 July 1887, Page 3

Halcombe Refreshment Rooms

V TO THK KmTOR «=1» THE STAR Sia,— Seeing in your issue of last Thursday a rpoftiijomphiimngtbat the RalcombY Refitfshineiit Rooms *ere nut Jjpen wlrMi th<» «xi.r* lute .twin i arrived last J^atiuduj uight, and uieo stating tffai some of the, passengers were doubtful w aether the blumo| rea^Qd^ with, the Railway, officials, or' wit\^ (i ; l the. jiwtri ipha rmis tlie moms" ■ it m^ ; be Bo'rae small satisfaction" to those -doubtful opes to know that* it was not' the' intention of the liaHway Officials to~de.lay. this train at; Ha|combe- beyond' the time necessary - for passengers "to~ajight (see, notices whfch stated%ufc this ii&ta. Would stop at any stsAioiti i if ) reqitfred). The reason it stopped so long "Was o r wi.ng to its; being at >HaZtf6mbe before the time. ~ J&this' train ! b^h-;te&ejf .So i stop; here -as JAthetf'-lmns^^^tieS, \acoord- f .ing to, the terms of s tfee* Refreshment Hooiiiß lease, it would have been nee-; ecessary for the rooms to have beenj open. Ey.en , were, it , not .necessary, j " ftps ntan 'who rum tfw zooms" hayingf bis living- id make tfut of them, 'wouldbe very foolish t6"cjose,when,he could; remain open attending to the wants! of a crowded; passenger. ira|m.-rrl am; . &c, ■' ■''„-• I The, Man \rao Runs the Rooms, i