THE TRAIN SERVICES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10481, 18 November 1911, Page 4

THE TRAIN SERVICES

CONNECTION tyITH MAIN TRUNK. Mr JR.. W. Rlobson introduced' they question of the four o'clock trail* to .the north., at the meeting of •Mfa&teJrtoai Chamber- of Commerce yesterday. He thought they shbuld inakerepPasenta+ions ito'the' Governtoent, with) a yieiw to getting anotb<er trial of tihe service in the summer " ißeason. .. v ;i Mr J. very miudh more important service rwlas the connection) of the Wadtrariapja» with tihe Miaiin Think Railway foom the) North. The present systemi, by .wffoich, the Wfiirarapa 1 tnains leififc jPalmerßiton half an hour before theam vial pf the. Main Urunk train., was most inopjiivenient. If the propose;, madle, Mastert&m tradesmen)- wi>uitt ! get their English. V mtail half a day earlier than at pore- ' sent. Mir 1 oa.rey said this proposal had already beein "turned down" by the Minister. Mir Rbbson moved, "Tfiat the Minister of Rkiiitwayisi ibe asked to give a< further trial to the runninig of a four o'clock untixed good's trainnorth. between Mtaotertonand Wbodv&Hie, or, an al'tiea-native, that .the goods' train miow going Nortu nearly i every afitetnioon be timed' to leave 'aH> I a fixed hbur, with a ppjeseonger oar attached; that the Mind'ster'® '-'at-' | tention be directed to the fact tiijM&; I tbe trial' of this afteimoion' tn&i that was authorised by ha® sonwjr months ago took place in the dead of winter, and under most unfavvonrajble conditions' possiMe; and (that the Minister be reminded tlna.t this train was; asked for by petition Sigped' by nearly every pettier in the Mkinwe.vMe and Eketaifouaia. districts'."- ' Mr K. (Birown seconded the xrtotion, which: was carried'. Mr oa,selberg said lie 1 • leferred to leave, the (matter of the Matin Trunk connection over until after tine elections.