“SHORT AND SWEET!”

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 32, 20 January 1912, Page 4

“SHORT AND SWEET!”

INTERVIEW, ABOUT TE WERA TRAIN SERyiCE.

CANNOT BE INCREASED

1 his morning a representative of i lie Stratford Evening Post” was informed that Mr J. Armstrong, district railway traffic manager, had received a deputation from Whangam onion a regarding the railway timetaole, and was fortunate enough to eaten Mr A. Coxhead of that township on nis way East. Yes, said Mr Coxhead, “there was a deputation. Mr J. B. Campbell, tho r.tationmaster here, got me the interview. I asked Mr Armstrong to i U rp l ™ a three days a week service to J e Wera instead of the present two . , vs ° ne - Mr Armstrong said : ‘Decidedly, no;’ the traffic does not wari tint it. When the lines goes further, it may be considered.’ ” Asked what reasons lie gave Mr Armstrong for urging him to make the alteration, Mr Coxhead replied that there was no time for any, but thought be could have made out a preHv scrong case._ “As it was,” he added, the interview was like the donkey’s gallop—short and sweet.”