WORKMEN'S TRAINS TO WAIKUMETE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 186, 7 August 1900, Page 2

WORKMEN'S TRAINS TO WAIKUMETE.

(To the Editor.) see by your paper that a deputation from Waikumete waited on the Traffic Manager to urge him to run the so-called workman's trains to Waikumete. How many more non-paying trains do the people in that vicinity want? They have three trains now within an hour and a half, when one train could do the lot. The iwt i eavil\ g town at e-M p-m- carrles about 6 people every nigrht, with the excep««w s**urd*y nlß*t, when it runs for nobody. These six people pay at the rate of 2/ per week, which means a train to Avondale and back for 12/ per week. The rest of the colony have to pay for this As to the suitability of the land at Waikumete for workmen's homes, it is about the worst land in New Zealand, but has, owing to'the . expected railway service, gone up considerably in price. Speculators have already been out to spy the land with a view to purchasing the most likely spots. The people living up the line us far as Henderson and Swanson have been greatly inconvenienced by the alteration in the time-table. They were formerly able to go into town by the early train and return after 5 p.m., but now they must leave town at 4.35 p.m., which bars them from working in, town. No genuine workman has yet taken up his residence a$

Avondale, nor are any likely to.—l am, etc., A TAXPAYER.