TE KUITI STATION.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 267, 11 June 1910, Page 2

TE KUITI STATION.

Council and Minister. RESOLUTION PASSED. At Wednesday's meeting of the Te Kuiti Borough Council, railway matters were discussed. Minister for Railways (Mr Millar) wrote regretting he could not break his journey at Te Kuiti for the purpose of meeting the Council and discussing railway accommodation questions, but was willing to meet the Council on the station platform. The Mayor said that if the Minister was travelling by the night express it would be of little use to see him. It was decided to wire Mr Millar, asking when he would be passing through Te Kuiti. The Mayor said they were being shamefully treated in the matter of station accommodation, and other stations, not doing a twentieth part of the business wo were doing were treated much better, lie moved that the Council apply for the immediate removal of the stock, yards. Cr Stevens seconded, an 3 asked for the inclusion of a request for the provision of a carriage on the morning and evening goods trains. Football teams could g j t them, hut business people get no consideration. The Mayor said the matter was a most urgent one, as they all knew. He had had the same experience in Taranaki, where they had to agitato to get a carriage put on a goods train. He had been surprised on a recent visit to I'lnd the traffic had greatly increased and now two carriages wero running on the train. Cr Lusk said if no action had been taken it would have been his intention to move that the Council remove the yards itself. Cr Hardy expressed similar sentiments. The motion was unanimously agreed to. The Minister of Railways (Hon. Mr Millar) wired in reply to the telegram sent by the Council that he would be passing through Te Kuiti by Thursday night's express. The Mayor and Cr King waited at the station, but Mr Millar was not visible.

It has subsequently been found that Mr Millar wrote a letter on June 4(b f which had not, apparently, been posted, and only readied his Worship the Mayor to-day (Saturday), l'n it Mr Millar states that as he was only passing through and returning from Auckland by the night express it was unfortunately impossible to meet the Council on the present occasion.