NEW NIGHT EXPRESS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 898, 15 February 1930, Page 13

NEW NIGHT EXPRESS

WELLINGTON TO TARANAKI INAUGURATION PROMISED Press Association HAWERA, Today. According to advice received by Mr. H. G. Dickie, M.P., the inauguration of a night express service three times weekly between Wellington and Taranaki may be expected next month. Information to this effect was given the Hawera Chamber of Commerce by Mr. Dickie last evening, when he read a letter received the same evening from the Minister of Railways. "The matter has now been brought to the stage where a time-table has been formulated, states the Minister’s letter. It is proposed that a night train shall leave Wellington on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays at 10.35 p.m., arriving in New Plymouth at 8.15 a.m. A return train will leave New Plymouth on Mondays, Wednesdaj's and Fridays at 9.10 p.m., arriving in Wellington at 6.32 a.m. “The department expects to be in a position to commence running the trains about the middle of March,” concludes the letter. “The service should be a boon to the district, particularly to business people in paying visits to Wellington with the minimum of loss of daytime hours in travelling,” said Mr. Dickie. His opinion was endorsed by the president of the council. Mr. B. C. Bennett, and other speakers.