THE HUTT RAILWAY.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4330, 4 February 1875, Page 3

THE HUTT RAILWAY.

TO THE EOITOR. _ . , Sm - -Hiding to the Hutt in the train last Saturday afternoon thaconversation turned upon theveryinconvenEent hours for bnsiness men at which tho trams urn nnnointeil to run. The passengers in the compartment I was in were unanimous in their condemnation of the present time-table, some of them, myself among the number, saying that they would S gone to live at the Hutt before now if hi.timetable suited them. One passenger, a well known builder and contractor, remarked that it the trams ran at convenient hours he would build several bouses at the Hutt: and others said that on the same conditions they would be only too glad to go and occupy his houses I stopped at the Hutt till Monday morning and the result was that X reached my often after ten’ o’clock. My usual time being 0.80, it is plain that I cannot very often indulge*in spending an evening in “be country. ' Again. it seems to me absurd that in the evening the last train to town should be at 555 Why not make it convenient for people who wfshtogo y out by the remain at the Hntt a couple of hoims? But that is not of so much importance as the morning tram. . I think the remedy for this inconvenience would be to run a quick train in the morning, to reach town not later than 9.20; and a quick evening train, to feave town at 5.50. If this were done hundreds of people would be enabled to live in the country, at less ruinous rentals than they now do in town. I make no excuse for the length of this letter, fori think the importance of the subject warrants it. I am. Sir, one who hopes February 2. •’ ' ’