Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1905.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42778, 14 September 1905, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1905.

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It will never do for Te Aroha to meekly accept the very evasive and unconvincing answer (given by the Minister for Railways to the question of Mr Moss, as to the early probability of improvements being ■ made to Te Aroha railway station. The Minister himself admits that “in the course of a few years it will be necessary for the Te Aroha station to give place to a better one, and Hoes not in these circumstances" consider it would be wise to spend considerable sums of money in maki \g improvements to a structure which must sooner or later be entirely removed and replaced by an up-to date building.” It is greatly to be regretted that the Minister for Railways fails to recognise that the up-to-date building is in reality a very urgent necessity at the present moment, as it has indeed been for some years. The Minister also states that “the erection of a verandah at Te Aroha would involve a considerable expenditure, and the enquiries which have been made into the matter show that this would be entirely out of proportion to any advantages which might be derived therefrom.” Bearing in mind the precise condition of the Te Aroha railway station, and the size of the town, one is inclined to think that some mistake has been made; that the Minister has been misinformed. Nobody who has visited Te Aroha and seen the railway station on a wet and windy day, can honestly say that the accommodation there provided is suitable or sufficient for the needs of the travelling public either at the present moment, or during the next few years. The mete promise of a station to be erected at some very rein te and indefinite future period, is of little' value to a district that has too long and too patiently suffered inconvenience and loss through the neglect of the present administration.to lend a more sympathetic ear to the requests of the district, and as it is thus very obvious that the present Grovemmen does not intend to do anything to. wards*' meeting any of Te Aroha’s most pressing needs, those electors to whom the progress of the town and district is at least equally important as blind partizanship, should carefully keep these facts before themselves during the coming few weeks. in view of the approaching dissolution of Parliament, the electors of this district, in reviewing the general condition of the district during the past few years, must be convinced that under the present regime, the stride of progress is unduly hampered, and that it behoves our townspeople in a body, to clamour for those things which are denied to us, but given freely to other towns situated in more favoured parts. Vigorous and sustained united action, combined with a. vivid 1 recollection of Te Aroha station matters when at the ballot-box, is apparently the only means of obtaining common justice in this most urgent and important matter