SUBURBAN TRAIN SERVICES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 292, 7 December 1923, Page 7

SUBURBAN TRAIN SERVICES.

(To the Editor.* Siri, —Aiter a careful study of the new time-table alterations in-the railway service,' J fail' to" See ? any direct benefit to these outer suburbs in the week-day alterations. Manurewa, though but fifteen miles from the largest city in the Dominion, cannot be reached from that city on Saturday morning from 8.15 till 12.8. As to Sunday trains, what are our advocates of Sabbath observance doing with the Jfjailway Department's latest efforts to create a Continental Sunday in New Zealand? Some few years back (during tie" war time) we were threatened with a discontinuance of the Sunday trains service, but now, since the railway service has been filched from the people with the 'Government as a nominal, figure-head,, it suits the employees (with the double pay on Sundays) to give us a.' train'service on Sunday which, if in operation on the Monday and. during the /week, -would •be a great boon to these outer suburbs. This railway employee policy in its relation to these; suburbs is, hbwevjar, slowly but Burely becoming a blessing in disguise. From infancy we'have, regarded the railways as the only means of transit to the city, in common. Vith other districts. For very many, years we have hoped for quicker and -more .frequent service, but "hope 3ef erred "maketh the' heart sad," with the, result that the South Suburban Otahuhu to Papakura local bodies are combining to bring about the most up-to-date method of transit (and as opposed to "Civil Service methods), that is a concrete road, Auckland to Papakura.—l am. etc., ENOS S. PEGLER, Manurewa.