CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3996, 23 December 1891, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

Local Exurslon Truss.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —I have noticed year after year the neglect of the local requirements j of the people of the Wairarapa by the | Railway Authorities. This district is now 80 extensive and populous that it requires the special attention of a looal district manager to direct local traffic. There is, however, X admit, so little local intercourse during most of the week that local trains cannot very well be run excej.t on Saturdays. But in the holiday season, and on local race or sport days and on odd holidays in the year the attention to our wants is very poor. Two things demand immediate consideration. The first is cheaper trains—local " excursion" trains. Without full " local " knowledge the railway authorities will not btf prepared to grant to the fall all that is wanted. Very many people own buggies and traps. Now they will sooner take a buggy or trap a long distance, even with five or six in it, than pay 15s to 80s for return fares second class. It v. ill cost these five or six people 22s to 45s to go first class. Now buggies and traps can take the owners at a quarter to one sixth of the above, but I think at less rates. Here is, at holiday times, a large traffic that might be tapped. But only a " local" man well acquainted with the district would feel the weight of the statement here advanced. Five or six times as many people went by horse conveyances as by the train to the football match between England and Wairarapa. The second point is this. The Wairarapa requires a general depot where extra carriages and trucks are kept and one locomotive at least. Those who send goods, etc., to Wellington have often had to complain that they cannot get at abort notice a sufficient supply of trucks. Let the railway authorities therefore appoint a deputymanagor for the Wairarapa. I am, etc., Locus.