THE RAILWAY TIMETABLE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9694, 19 January 1910, Page 5

THE RAILWAY TIMETABLE.

MR MILLAR SPEAKS PLAINLY. Speaking on the subject of the pew railway timetable and the objections that have been raised to it, the Minister for Railways, Hon. J. A. Millar. said he was going into the whole matter very carefully, "it is no good Chambers of Commerce carrying resolutions," he said, in reply to a question put to him, "'because this timetable way compiled to suit the requirements of the various districts on the representations of the Chambers of Commerce, But it was no sooner in force than the people whom the Chambers of Commerce, said they represented, were the first to cry out against it." The people on the East Coast, he added, desired to get through communication from Napier to Auckland, Taranaki ard Wellington, in one day. They got what they asked, but they were told at the time that it would require an early train. "Now," he remarked, "they have changed their minds, both in Taranaki and Hawke's Bay, and they are prepared to forego the through connection in one day." There was no complaint from the Wairarapa, except from Masterton and Eketahuna. The rest of the Wairarapa was weli satisfied, according to the information he had received, and the rest of the district was against any further alteration. At any rate, said Mr Millar, in conclusion, the timetables must stand until the Ist of February, but the'department was making enquiries with a view to discovering, what would be the most suitable arrangements.