LEFT OUT IN THE COLD

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 4 March 1914, Page 3

LEFT OUT IN THE COLD

The residents of Helensville have a feeling that they are left out in the cold; Otahubu ahd Vapatoetoe have their Sunday trains but Helensville has none and"the people do not consider this at all a right and proper thing, In their distress they applied to the General. Manager for Railways and asked that they be given a little Sunday train of their own, point-* ing out at the same time the benefits that would accrue. The manager, however, turned a deaf ear to their pleadings and said regretfully that nothing could be done. But these Helensviile people are persistent. Taught w,isdoin "by the experience of the past they refuse to take "No" for an answer, and tow they are going to apply to the Minister for Railways when next he visits the district. If he is a wise man he will stop away—unless, of course, he does as he did at Waiuku. He promised the good people there that they would receive preference over everybody else. If the people of Helensville were given a similar promise they would surely desist from their persistency—for a while at least. After that who cares? Auckland "Bulletin."