RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 95, 8 May 1900, Page 2

RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS.

TO THE EDITOR. "

Sib,—Facilities to travel by rail, steam, or road are essential, not only to the traveller, but also to the district through which one likes to go, Someone bas said, " Show me your roads, and I will tell you what sort of people you are ?" lam induced to a*k you to find space in your valuable papir for this letter. A number of excursionists left Wellington on Thursday by . the s.s. Takapuna at 5 p.m., and arrived at the breakwcter at 7.30 a.m. on Friday. Under ordinary circumstances, we should have reached New Plymouth in time to catch the 7.55 a.m. train to Hawera, where the day could have been spent, and by return by express train , connection with the Takapuna for | Auckland could have been obtained. Owing to delay at the breakwater, , however, the train did not reach town . until after the departure of the 7.55 train, thus preventing our projected visit to | Hawera—although, had we known the i " run of the ropes," the simple hiring of a vehicle would have landed us at the station in time to have caught the , train. Evidently "someone had bluu- , dared." The engine and carriages were t at the breakwater, and I think with ft , little forethought on the part of the | Railway Department we could have reached the station in plenty of time to let us get away. Now, I think, there is nothing to prevent the boats and railway having mutual arrangements which would largely obviate this apparent want of intelligent management. I am told the boat is seldom or never ' behind. If the railways belonged to a ( private company you would not, X think, find them disregarding suck j chances as there appear to be in this ' case, Why could not the telephone ba . used to ask if there are any passengers '. going south, and let the engine and ' carriage run up with them?—l am, etc., VisrroE,