A DAILY TRAIN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume VII, Issue 242, 15 February 1889, Page 2

A DAILY TRAIN.

Day by day the necessity for improved railway communication becomes evident. Those who have had to do with the princes of the earth, in the shape of General Managers of railways have had frequently to turn sadly back from any application made by them for redress or for conveniences, but the case now under conderation bears on the face of it, a direct breach of faith on the Department's part. When the settlers so willingly met the Traffic Manager in the alteration of the timetable some 'months past, to enable this section of the railway to economise, it was distinctly promised by him that immediately on an improvement of the traffic the daily service should be resumed We now again call upon that gentleman tobe as good as his word, no arguments, no facts from us are needed, for they are recorded from week to week in the returns sent from the Foxton station, and in his periodical visits lie must have noticed the signs of activity displayed in the erection of hemp inilla oetween the Oroua Bridge and the terminus. It is a most unsatisfactory feature in the conduct of public business, that those in whose charge they are placed, should be always so slow in feeling tile touch of the times, and without the stir of th« public demand, fail to supply what they cannot but acknowledge is only what is fair and right. When urging this matter previously, we advised waiting until th« Commissioners were appointed, and now that they are in office, we can see no reason why the daily train is not at once run. If it is held. by the authorities to be absolutely against all precedent to do anything without a previous agitation, of course the people must agitate, but why in the name of common sense it should be held advisable to drag the unoffending taxpayers of the colony out of their homes of a night, and to put their hands in their pockets to pay for a hall and advertising in order to assist the railway department to earn more money, is just one of those things that Lord Dundreary would have said " no iellah could understand."