IMPROVED RAILWAY FACILITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 111, 8 May 1903, Page 2

IMPROVED RAILWAY FACILITIES.

I TrUFffia MANAQBfI INTBRy-lEWED. A deputaidn from the Ohambor of Commerce, consisting of Messrs Bewley 1 (chairman), Cock, Piaser, Paul, Ab. Gold water, Newm>n, ond Morgan (manager of S S. Co.), Wii'ed on ; Mr Whi cotnoe, Tialii; Mana i g r, on Thursday with leference to i improvement in tho train se vo of this dis'riet. Mr Bewley bri fly explained the ob- ' j'3Cbof the drputation, and was followed 1 by Mr Goldwater, who asked th».t a first-class carriage for smokers should ba placed on the outward train leaving at 1 p.m. He pointed out that by giving proper accommodation by that train it would be used 1 by a larger number of passengere. In ths conversation which ensued, Mr Whitcombe said ha wo aid give the deputation's request <v ry consider* tion. He was prppirirg a ne* scheme for a railway sarvica wh ; ch would te submitted to the Depigment fo' approval, and then hmded to tho !oc 1 : press and Ohambi rof Comm re ■ so that s the feeling of the dis'rict mig'it bj i ascertained, and as far as posible givm effect to. A request was also mide for a duly i train service at mid-day to Waitara. : As thu'e s etned a prospect a biweekly 83rvice might be granted when the summer traffic sat it 1 , they suagesttd that the train; should run on Weinesd iy and Saturday. Mr Morgan poinded out the incon- [ venience to the working of s'.eimerg through tho short ige of trucks. Mr i Whitcombe said tha Department was i building rolling sfo k as fiat «s pos- > sible, but tho supply was still d fLient.