Our Tramway !

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4819, 7 September 1894, Page 2

Our Tramway !

[TO TUB BDITOIt, V.D, TIMB3,]

Sut,—Yesterday was one of tho coldest days we have had, yet there was no lire in the gentlemen's waiting room at the Wellington railway station; indeed, the grate looked as if it had not had one in for a week, although the weather has been the bitterest this year, Surely coal is cheap enough in tho huge quantities the Kailway Department contracts for.

The Wellington platform is not a particularly pleasant place to havo to hang about on any ordinary cold day—yesterday it was simply freezing. Needless to say, I got a bad start for my journey up by the afternoon train, and as it goes at a pace which would disgrace even an honest undertaker, Masterton was reached with at least one passenger in an almost frozen condition. The gentlemen's waiting ropm at Wellington is a miserable apartment at tho best of times (it is said to have been furnished by the gaol contractor!) ; but I think yqu will agree with me that pyen tho barest room is brightened by a fire, and that tho cold this winter'ought to have beeiißiiilicjentto have convinced tlip Railway Department pf its' necessity. _ The accommodation on this particular railway altogether would stand a lot of improvement before tl|e passengers were mado unduly comfortable j while, as tq the time taken, on the journey, well, life's too short to inako' it often, -1 am, etc., A CpJIMERCUf,. Masterton, Wednesday, [ln large matters the Railway Department Jacks enterprise, in smaller matters it 'goes beyond economy and becomes moan,—En. W.D.T.]