THE EXPRESS TRAINS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 April 1914, Page 2

THE EXPRESS TRAINS.

(To the Editor). Sir, —Is it not possible for tile Chamber of Commerce to put in a claim for the express trains to stop at Levin during Easter holidays. It is too bad of the railway department to pass this town by wli/n so many people will be travelling. We have to sit upon the platform at Palmerston for two hours whenever we want to fake the express, and if we want to catch the midnight ■express we have to leave Levin by the 8 p.m. train and wait until midnight at Palmerston. The convenience of the residents on the Manawatu lino is surely of as much consequence as those of Feilding, which is only a few miles out of Palmerston. One cannot talte an express for any place on the Main Trunk without killing 2 hours at Palmerston in any sort of weather, but to wait till midnight is too much for us to stand much longer. Say a person wants to leave Levin bv the 8 p.m. train and wait at Palinorston until this hour, is it to be (expected that passengers would care to drop at any station on the Main Trunk during the dark hours of the morning!'' Think of a young woman hanging about the Palmerston station until midnight : And then to drop at say Taihapo or any place" up that way before the next day breaks. And what of families? A. man leaves his work at 5 o'clock; he takes somo of his family up the Main Trunk. The same fate awaits him. As to sending a juvenile by this tram it is out of the question, ■with the long wait andjthe darkness lie or she would get lost. Perhaps the department will say "You must take the day-time for it-." Well, •he wait is fust the same -two hours lost, and to business men •this is a consideration. This line is worthy of more consideration, and we must claim it. Surely if we get nothing more the general manager will arrange for one express a day to stop at Levin during the holidays. The Chamber <>f' Commerce must use its lungs. AVe may be "heard for our much speaking." -Yours, etc.,

CRY ALOFT)! FEAR NOT!

MORE FLAG-WAVING. v.xu lue iLiUiiur.; >Mr, Hues lun'. a scrap on . IWo pernicious nanuncrs uonn on tiic unlucliy pule ol 'Anti-lied ±'ed.' x ortunat-eiy ue is a hard-headed ancient. "jNew starts witu a tu quuque nit. A clumsy hit, my iriend, and one tliat always misses its mark. "New Zeaiander' dubs "Anti-Red Fed" a Socialist, whilst "R.S.y." calls Uim a typical Tory. A plague on both your houses. say I. The former asks how often "public good and whisky seller (he omits the labour delegate)" put their hand in their pockets for the good of New Zealand?'' "Public good" has no pocket; it is a prospecting hole. When a man shells out for the benefit, of his town or country, it makes for public good. His private contributions to the whisky seller or the labour delegate are a doubtful benefit to the community. "A.-R.F." would like to see the "nest of tyrants" in New Zealand that has power "to keep any man with his nose to the grindstone." If a man keeps his nose in that unpleasant position it is entirely his own fault. Let the "noseground" fellow hustle a bit and get .a move on. There are lots of fat billets ahead of him—such as Premier, M.P., newspaper editor, Social Democrat orator, etc. "New Zeaiander" found one grain of truth in "Anti-lled Fed," viz., that the New Zealand man can detect the false ring in political speech-making. 1 fancy we in the Otaki electorate paid for an extra lesson in ringing the changes at the last election and one that will not be forgotten in 1914. Now for the other hammer. Hear •'R.S.Y.," thero are many problems in the world to-day besides those styled Socialism and Capitalism, and tho curc-all panacea for all and every one is awaiting discovery. It' is comforting to those of us who are Socialistically inclined to hear irom "R.S.Y."

that "The great captains of industry are quietly embracing the principles of Socialism." Such a piece of news is most encouraging. The millenium must be at hand. Hurrah for the Union •lack.—Yours, etc., ANTI-RED FLAG.