SLOW AND TIRESOME.
THE NEW PLYMOUTH MAIL. I MR. WILKINSON'S,SUGGESTIONS. The recent Ministerial answer to questions affecting the New Plymouth mail train was discussed on Friday in Parliament .by Mr. Wilkinson, who urged the Government to considerably shorten the long and wearying journey from Wellington to New Plymouth. It took, he said, twelve hours, the rate being twentyone miles an hour, which he quite reasonably, argued was slow for a mail train. Was it not possible to cut out a number of stops at the smaller stations and run a local train ahead of the mail, which would carry passengers to central stations, where they could pick up the mail? He .believed that the Taranaki section was one of the best paying bits of line in New Zealand, but it was not securing the consideration it deserved. After describing tihe straggle for refreshments which often took place at the stations, the member for Egmont spoke strongly in favor of the provision of a dining-car on the mail train.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 1, 13 July 1914, Page 4
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168SLOW AND TIRESOME. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 1, 13 July 1914, Page 4
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