THE MAIL TRAIN SERVICE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 52, 26 March 1909, Page 2

THE MAIL TRAIN SERVICE.

Tin- announeeinenf tliai Hi,. U'ellington\ew Plymouth mail train -ervieo U to In* aceeleraU'd from I In* Ist pro\. will li«. regarded with salisl'aetion by Tlir smi-ral |>nl>lii-. parthulnHv Uif Taranaki jreneral public. In order to i.]i-inv tlir South l-lanil cnimeolion not lii'ili" missed, till' train ih to leave Web H.ik'toi! twenty-live minutes later than at present. i.e., at S.Io a.m. inhtcaii (if 7.00 a.m. A few small it dps have been eliminated from the time-table, and tlie <.xprcis will consequently leaeh Xew Plymouth at its usual time, viz.. 8 p.m. As far as wv can learn the train leaving New I'lvinuu th for \Vi>lliii<flu,< is nnl to by likewise "speeded up." This in tu hj- regretted. Twenty-live minutes is a eon-i-iderablv -.nvijijj in time, anil it it is possible Id make it on the up joiirney it -lioiiltl be pio—ililc to do the same on tli' down trip. We do aut know wliieli stops are tu be eliminated under the new but we do know that apart from many unimportant stops the be-t purl of an hour eonld very easily he saved by rednehijt tile stay at places I like llaweva. Wungamii, Marto;i, an-l j I'aliuersioii. It is. something, however. i to uH oven parti-.il improvement in th • mil' Kerviee, and we trust it will not Ijv l<>n;j before the Minister for Railways will see his way to improve the down service, ami. while alxnU it, make one hite by eultriijr. on I all small stopping pliu-es atut mlminjj; tin 1 present umiee- J essirilv ]on<r «tnv« at tlie l»i««»er sta- I tiOiK "