The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY FEBRUARY 8, 1881.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 687, 8 February 1881, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY FEBRUARY 8, 1881.

"We iiave move than once drawn attention to the advisability of the: railway department giving us an extra train once a week for local traffic, unci it has been an agreeable surprise for. us to find our wishes more than realised, for instead of one train per week we are given two, We might be tempted to indulge in a flourish ■of trumpets on the happy result of the movement which Ave advocated, were we not conscious that we were only in a secondary degree instrumental in obtaining the concession. To Mr Bnnny, is due the credit of first discovering and representing the necessity, of increased facilities for travelling in the Wairavapa, Subsequently Mr 0, Pharazyn, as County Chairman,.used' his influence to back tho good cause, and the upshot is that wc get just double what we asked for. Ths duplication of our demand, however, confers upon us a certain amount of responsibility. " It is necessary, to maintain the boons that have been accorded to us, that wo should avail ourselves of them. Settlers in the various townships must patronise these trains, as unless they secure a certain amount of traffic they will be withdrawn. No doubt thos'o interested in County meetings or any public demonstrations will now fix their appointments for the two days in the week on which there is extra train accommotlatien. Mr Ashcroft, tho District Manager, has been very liberal towards us, and not only private individuals but public one's must display a little enterprise in taking advantage of Hie new . accommodation placed at their disposal The iI.M. Courts, forexample, in the different townshipsniight be "re-arranged so as to enable' suitors, witnesses, and criminals to move' from-one township to .another with greater convenience than hitherto. From the difficulties of transit sittings have often been long .ai),d infrequent, 11 -is*' needless to pointout that more frequent sittings and.' shorter ones would be infinitely pre-' ferable, The samo may bo said of County- meetings and many other gatherings in which it has been usual to try to get through the work of two or three sittings in one. An efficient train service in the Wnirai'apa is calculated to cure its settlers of manybarbarous and,impunctuVil methods of transacting business, which have been excusable to a great extent in the past, but which cannot- be permitted foi; .the future.