THE SUGGESTED ALTERATION IN THE RAILWAY TIME-TABLE.

Waikato Argus, Volume III, Issue 160, 22 July 1897, Page 2

THE SUGGESTED ALTERATION IN THE RAILWAY TIME-TABLE.

TO Till; KDITOK. Sri;, in the railway time-table that is now talked of will cause inconvenience to the general public. Jt is proposed, as pointed < tit in your leading columns, to delay the departure of the early train from Waikato for three-quartern of an hour This would make the hour of artival ill Auckland 3.1") p.m. The ban Us close at ."!, and although, as you state, there are bank agencies in each of the leading centrts, they are but the agencies of one hank. Many Waikato people now bank with >'nstitut : ons not as yet represented in this district, and, were the change aimed ftt brought about, it would be impossible to transact any business with these without the loss of a clear day. If there were no other way out of tins difiiouliy, 1 have no douot the Waikat.j people would. 11l the interests of the dairy industiy, uncomphuiiinuly submit t< whatever inconvenience the proposed change would entail upon them. But there is an alternative. \\ hy cannot the passenger train be run at a greater speed than at present 1 It now iiiirs at alont 10* miles an hour; wcie the speed increased to 'JO, the train might bo delayed nearly an hour and yet reach Auckland as early an it does at present. The later hcur of departure would he a boon to settlers who live at any distance from a railway station, and the greater speed would shorten appreciably the tedious hours occupied on the journey. \ ours, etc., lSltOAl) Gauue. Kangiaohia, July 21.