THE HELENSVILLE TRAIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 187, 8 August 1921, Page 2

THE HELENSVILLE TRAIN.

RESIDENTS OBJECT TO CUT. NO SUPPORT FROM THEIR MEMBER AUCKLAND WELL TREATED. Apprehensive of the inconvenience that will attend the cutting out of Saturday's Helensville express, which restruction was forecasted in the curtailed railway service which' comes into operation on August 14, a number of the constituents of the Hon. C. J. Parr, member for Eden, waited on him this morning j and urged his intercession on their behalf that the suggested restriction do not become operative. The Minister, however, declined to assist them, saying that the railways, particularly in the South Island, were not paying their way; "indeed, some of the lines scarcely paid for the axle grease," and he thought that his colleague, Hon. D. H. Guthrie, Minister of Railways, had treated tbe Auckland Province with due regard to the undoubted new settlement. "We may have to submit to a good many more inconveniences yet before the railways are put !on a proper business basis as they should i be," was Mr. Parr's final rejoinder. The Helensville train that will be : affected is the 8.25 a.m., which runs four times weekly. On Monday, Wednesday 1 and Friday it runs as far as Huarau, and 'on Saturday proceeds only as far as I Helensville." It is this latter train that is affected by the "cut." The particular inconvenience that will be occasioned appears to be in the connection with the boat for Dargaville, which Saturday's ! express makes at Helensville. Intending passengers will now have to. catch the 7 a.m. train from Auckland, which arrives at Helensville a short time before the present Saturday express. The new arrangement will entail some early rising by those who intend to use j the train to make the connection.