NAPIER NEEDS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 86, 10 April 1912, Page 6

NAPIER NEEDS.

THE MEMBER MOVES. (Tit Prods Association.) Napier, April TO. Mr J. V. Brown, M.P., interviewed the Hon. W. T>. S. Macdonald, Minister for Public Works, on the latter passing through Napier yesterday, to urge greater expedition in the prosecution of work on the East Coast railway. Mr Brown pointed out that at the present rate of progress it would probably lie ten years before the first section was completed. The Minister promised that attention would be given to the matter. Mr Brown also urged the necessity of "speeding up" the express train from Napier to Wellington by cutting out small stopping places. Mr Macdonald said he recognised the need for this. The member for Napier informed a reporter as an example of the slowness of the train that he had come down in his car, loft it at the station just as the train was leaving and when he arrived at Hastings the car was waiting for him.