NOTES AND COMMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 102, 2 January 1915, Page 4

NOTES AND COMMENTS

EAT WAY EXCURSIONS. There has been fairly complaint about the train arraiigoments Lot the usual holiday excursions. vo( lit ions, they have not been a 1 Urn'ad lo travel from Wellington aiul I'roin other stations along the Main Trunk line on the ordinary excursion ticket, but when they have wished to return by a Main Trunk train so as to get back in time to resume their duties oi vocations, they have not been alolwed to do so. After travelling in for many miles from farms in the backbloc.ks v.iiere they have been spending their holidays, they have been chagrined and disappointed at iot being allowed tr travel; the situation is intensified in some cases by fear that employment may be lost through inability to get back to time. The Railway Department

cannot make their instructions, relative to excursion travelling, too clear, or too precise. It is nothing but a trap to allow people to travel one way on an exsion ticket, then to have that way closed to them on their return. The season's travelling seems to have been amply provided for by the Department, but it is such annoying happenings, which may seem small matters when arrangements are being evolved, that give rise to complaints from many people who have been seriously inconvenienced thereby. THE RUAHINE TRAGEDY. Our readers will regret' to learn that up to this morning nothing had been learned by th.fi police of the whereabouts of Arthur Rotterman, the alleged Ruahine murderer. Wellington journals are publishing pictures of Rotterman, and say the German is well-known in Wellington, having worked on the Hinemoa and other vessels. The police description of him is: Age, 21; height, o feet J) inches; well-set up, solid buil? ; weight, about 12 stone; clean-shaven; dark brown hair; small sunken eyes, other features fairly regular; lignYhouse tatooed on forearm; speaks English well, with a German accent, also writes English. When last seen he was wearing a dark suit, with turned coatcuffs, soft shirt, and hard, black liar with narrow brim. The authorities anticipate an. early location, of their man