MAIN TRUNK LINE.
New Time-Table. Arrangements have been made by the Railway Department for through tickets from Auckland to Wellington, including the coach fare over the interruption in the Hue, to be issued from the 16th inst. It has also been arranged that from the first prox, the morning train which now leaves Taihape at 8.30 for Mataroa shall leave at 7 o’clock. Thus passengers from Wellington will be enabled to stop the night at Taihape instead of at Waiouru, as at present, taking the y.a.m. train the next morning, and getting I through to Tauraarunui that day, and to Auckland on the following ! day. i'etweer. 1905 and 1907 the ordinary tickets issued outward from Wellington by the Main Trunk line had increased from 47,106 to 67,410; the parcels from 3283 to 5232; sheep, from 85,608 to 99,685 ; timber from 8,552,500 ft to 21,033,100 f t; wool, from 11,588 bales to 14,698 bales ; and other lines in proportion. The revenue had increased from to ,£55,691 inward from the Main Trunk ; the parcels had increased from 8631 to 12,726; sheep, from 13,972 to 18,079 ; merchandise, from 5165 tons to 8552 tons.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19071224.2.25
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3778, 24 December 1907, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
190MAIN TRUNK LINE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3778, 24 December 1907, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in