THE HUNTLY HESS. PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT 1 P.M. FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1916. Huntly-Awaroa Bail way.

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 28 January 1916, Page 2

THE HUNTLY HESS. PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT 1 P.M. FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1916. Huntly-Awaroa Bail way.

IN consequence of protests made by the Town Board, the Railway Department has granted women and children the right to travel on the Huntly-Awaroa Railway. The permission to travel, is of course, a great boon to the people concerned, but the accomodation provided by the Department is hardly up-to-date. So far, a truck, such as is used at holiday times, has been provided, and though better than nothing, this is not in accordance with the raquirements of the passenger traffic on the line. It seems strange that the Department should be content thus to do things by halves. If they admit, which, by their action they do, that the provision of passenger accomodation is necessary, they are surely bound to supply as good accomodation as is supplied on any other railway in the Dominion.

If it be that the Department is in such an impoverished state that they have not one carriage that can be spared for this line, then things are in a bad state indeed. But this cannot be, and it is only another instance of want of thought on the part of some official.

No doubt representations will be made in the proper quarter, and a carriage put on before the cool evenings make travelling in the open air unpleasant.