CORRESPONDENCE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 September 1910, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

[Our correspondents' opinions arj their own; the responsibility of editorial ones makes sufficient bal 'asf for the editor's *)y lders.]

A RAILWAY TRAIN MATTER, To the Editor. Sir,—Tho way Mr A. P. Smith Iras puilled Mr Clark's leg astonishes thoso who know the latter. 01 what possible benefit could' delaying the night train be to Levin, Foxton or Olwiu. i>e do a large business with the latter place on a Saturday ovening, they coining by the twenty to eight and returning by the nine o'clock coach. .If the train is delayed as favoured by Mi Clark, what time would it give them? Travellers to Foxton would arrive after ten o'clock, and the coach-drivers and carriers of Levin wouldl be working well into the night, and local residents so much later to their homes. Personally it would seriously effect my business and disappoint nearly 20L clients of the evening papers. The only people it would benefit would be those desirous of buying out of the town. To say that one-and-a-half hours is not ample for any business man in a warehouse is circulating an absurdity. What Levin and I'almerston want, and want badly, is the morning service improved—it now taking 3) hours to do 59 miles, and is the only train to Wellington till 3.50. The whole service is run to suit the Wellington business man getting out for business, while the door is closed to Palmerston and intermediate stations doing the same. I intend writing to the Minister of Railways denying that the proposed retrograde proposal suits Levin. — Yoprs, etc.,

J. W. THOMPSON