CORRESPONDENCE.

Hutt News, Volume 1, Issue 15, 21 October 1927, Page 8

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editpr).. I have read with considerable interest several editorials and letters in your valuable publication and cannot understand why your policy is so obviously pro-bus and anti-train. Now, Sir, as a user of the trains for over eight years, I contend that for safety, speed and comfort the train is unsurpassed, and solves most effectively the problem of transporting the workers and business men of the Valley to and from work cheaply and with despatch. While granting that the buses have now become indispensible in their own sphere, I cannot see why the trains should be so maligned. If the policy of your association is, aa you state, to foster business and trade in the Hutt, why do you constantly applaud the activities of the buses who are carrying into Wellington, for the purpose of shopping, many of the potential customers of the Hutt? It was my misfortune to miss a train the other evening, and- I was forced to take the bus. The trip to the Hutt Post Office took fifty minutes, most of the delay occurring at Petone. Here the driver alighted from his bus, and spent some ten minutes in passing the time of day (or night) with several of his kind oblivious to the fact that he was even in charge of a vehicle of passengers anxious to get home. I know that "Combined" will welcome the contents of this letter to exercise more of his delicate and rapier like wit upon, and will, as in a previous case, make rather ponderous suggestions as to the writer's sobriety.—Yours, etc., J.W.