RESIDENTS COMPLAIN

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 312, 24 March 1928, Page 1

RESIDENTS COMPLAIN

EAST COAST TIME-TABLE j PUBLIC WORKS CONTROL Some dissatisfaction has been ex- : pressed by people in the Bay of Plenty district at the inconvenient arrangement of the time-table on the East Coast railway between Taneatua and Tauranga, the complaint in chief being that intending passengers to Auckland from Taneatua have to wait in Tauranga from 10.58 a.m. to 1.55 p.m. for a train to carry them on. They ask for a train that will leave Taneatua somewhere about 7 a.m. and get them through to Morrinsville or Frankton in time to connect with one of the fast trains to Auckland. It is explained by the Railway Department that the portion of the East Coast line between Taneatua and Tauranga is in the hands of the Public Works Department, but eventually it will taken over by the railways. The railways are not responsible for the present arrangement of the timetable, but when the line is taken over, the arrangement will be revised. When this stretch of line is taken over from the Public Works Department, and the new Tahawai-Tauranga portion is taken from the contractors, the Railway Department will have the control of the whole East Coast railway. The Railways Department is lending the Public Works Department special cars for the conveyance of school children to the opening ceremony of the new line on YVednesday next.