Train Mems.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2111, 21 June 1898, Page 2

Train Mems.

It is generally understood that plans for the erection of a station building in Shortland and Girahamstown will bo at once proceeded with. Messrs "Vickerman, Biss, and Stewart are also busy making various arrangements for carrying on the remainder of the works, and the early completion of the line is expected. A number @f unemployed 'have been engaged on the Thames end of the Te Aroha-Thames railway. With reference to the terminus, of course no king definite is known at present. Tnere is, however,' a strong probability that Mo; rinsville will be fixed upon. Nor are reasons for |such a choice far to seek. The Auckland trains will have to connect with sieamers plying between that city and Kopu, and be prepared to carry passengers to their respective destinations, whether Te Aroha or Rotorua, on the same day. The most profitable section of the line, excluding the Auckland-Penrose Junction portion, will be that • containing the Morrinsville (junction for Rotorua) and Te Aroha stations, and no paiijs will be spared to provide for- the com : •fort and convenience of tourists audinvalids, who are thronging to the thermal spi ingsin annually increasing numbers. More especially is this statement true of Te Aroha, whose progress in favour is j ustly regarded as phenomenal. Mox-rinsville (we have no authority for this statement) will probably be the terminus', as the convenience of departing tourists will be best studied by affording them the convenience of-a morning train. There will therefore as far as Morrinsville be a double service every day, the morning train from Auckland, and the afternoon train from Kopu conveying

passengers arriving by the boats run ning between Auckland and Thames.