THE TERRACE END PLATFORM.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 94, 4 September 1878, Page 3

THE TERRACE END PLATFORM.

■ ""'"•'■"! i': /-i6:i^'_n^rd^ ■>--^<\-">>:'-: ' Bißi^ln.the^tiissue^yiow paper, ft^a^sta^f tfiil^ Aunpousiy^gSa ■rctitMJtf fibrii f JB^s^^l»feng'<th^Stoifey I Greek rbad had^^'been/fomarfed othe Min^terof I^blic Workp; asking that a platform "niight be erected at; the iunbiipn ofihip Napier *oadl'; Thjs potion, I'^re'siiinei^s m opposition, 1 to. the pro^ jected passenger platform asked for by the Borough Council and residents cmyimit; i^^pne?ty them: I*bltanti:{bf ;that; jthe *etu tionerp hare, set forth the rovenue likely febe derived ffem thapktforia asked |fft*;»t ibat'i»snf:; If^we may 4ttd»B Kittm past experieVice;; Jtfee' number' of I passenger* tnwellinjt >yrail from the Stoney Creek settlement ts is 'nearly as | pjortiblentY, white the'number:Hrawel. fing the. j^int ! ,named; ttie Comncil ja reiry Mrg& and steadily on? rljie frhich Set can, be attested would have, beei^ mpre. prudent o«the part of i tfie |»r«6nß headiriggthis tittte excitement if ttiey had brought thisf matter before 1 ' s6me"p4l)^o meeting,' giving the public generaUy an septerhlniiy s of knoiwiafe Vthmif j:wishes were oh the subject. Some Hme £ ago it was hinted tkat there hadbeen a ' Kttle aitempt at wiro.palling m connection with this platform. -I think the vpubKo may n«w^^ sa&ly.-edwlude such i was the case; Burao* hath it; that an k eldresident *as:been movM^ quietly m •ithiauopposition' matteri; 'OtheW say that a verr> energetic,fendbr' of-njUk wilhiaike Borough 'is- th* hero,an<J^the i. inveßtoexrf a wonderful ]pl»n of theitoi '/ caKty, whteli lias' been duly forwarded' afith. <*^^n» f past; «'it.^isi iweHijltiHiwn^ that signatures can ft easily^be obtained to almost any kind of t^ia-petition froj» tW. majority of tfcesoi called residentt ofSftb»ey ] Creek a%lrict, t simjjy kwause they do aot knbwjpirha* they ate asked to wgn-^o. wit, the pe^ tihons forwarded' to tke Cb^lajy Council a few weeks ago, m whicb- tfiey asked vx on© petition to be separated'from thi Mancheste^rEiding, s;nd: ifimediately /afterwards;the- ?aine names w^ere c»b>ta;inedl ,toi a pelS^Ott asking not to be separated 1 from,: that riding j; m fact, protesting- one- day* against what they had hunrbly pray^etfior the day previous. 'yThe residents of ilie^Roroti^fi; are m no "w&j asfetng foi? a passengeri platform at Terrace Eiid as a compliment; it is siniply- a nectessflyy and if granted will tend to' increase- the receipts of the Eailway. Thfe should te'the chiof aim on the part of the Eailway autiioT«*ies th%Bßselveß, to' make any erection along (she line.jpu£ Jf the idea, of our

opposition friends is carried out.instead of that of the inhabitants of the Borough, this erection will not pay half so well as if it were placed at the point named by the Council, who indeed should be allowed m this case to know their own requirements better than those living miles away, such as our friends above alluded to. We have "na, objection to being supplied with, milk or muttoi* by outsiders, but I think we are qiii to justified m raising pur voices against such persons interfering too far m public Twitters such as,this, who, \i A to, will entail a greajk; injustice on at very large number of th 6 ffegidents within the Borough. I have every confidence m our. Bailway authorities, and quite believe that they will m noj-way alfowthemselves to be biassed by such peti-' tions. They are often on the spot, and know the whole, bearings of this case. Let them decide whichiis the most con-, venientspot for a passenger platform, and when decided, proceed with, its erection and put~an,end .to^this petty,, strife and jealousy from those whoiwilli if ever use either platform after ■its ereotipn. — lam, <&o; t i. T **" ~~~~~? ~ i - 4 — --"B6BotroH.~^-