TE ARO RAILWAY STATION

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 119, 20 May 1912, Page 3

TE AR O RAILWAY STATION

TO THE EDITOB. Sir, — With your v permisfiiou I would like to add a few remarks in favour of the retention of tho above station. My ! idea is this: That instead of dismantling Te Aro Station it should bo made the main "passenger" station for Wellington. The principal advantage of this would be that fully half an. hour would be 6aved in connecting with the south ferry steamers. No doubt arrangements could be made whereby the ferry steamers oould berth _ at the Taranaki-street Wharf, thus saving time and expense in "cabbing" from the_ present site — tho pas- | seugers' luggage being taken by luggagej van almost alongeido 6teamer. If this half hour, or shall we say one hour, could be saved for the southern passengers, it would be a great benefit. But what ot the majority of the citizens of Wellington who travel by train? Roughly, I should think that there is only about onetenth of the population of our city on the north side of the Lambton Station. The rest have to use the tram or pay expensive cab fares to their homes in the southern suburbs. The present network of lines could be left as they are, and used exclusively for goods traffic. As no doubt the dock site will never be used for large warehouses (owing to lack of good foundation), what could be better than use it^ for sheds for rqlling-fitpck, etc. ? I take it that all that is required for the central station is a large roofed-in etruoture i with, offices attached — not a large brick building. Most of the land occupied by the old Manawatu Station could be used for additional wool stores and storage eheds, etc., for produce, etc., from the country. The line between Lambton and' Te Aro would no doubt have to be duplicated owing to increased traffic. In my opinion Te Aro would be a site for our central station, and would be a more expeditious and satisfying position for our main station than either of the other sites. There ie also the possibility of the Sydney and ferry steamers connecting by rail at Island Bay in the near future. — I am, etc., THERTY-FIVE YEARS' RESIDENT. j 18th May.