LATER EXPRESS?

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 18, 22 January 1931, Page 8

LATER EXPRESS?

DIFFICULTY OVER HAILS.

BUSINESS MEN'S REQUEST.

TWENTY MINUTES' DELAY

SUGGESTED,

Owing to the inconvenience caused the business community through the earlier closing of mails consequent upon the removal of the railway station efforts arc being made by the Aucklan 1* Chamber of Commerce to have the departure of the present 7.40 p.m. express for Wellington delayed by about 20 minutes ordinarily and for a longer period on Fridays. c At this morning's meeting of tha executive of the chamber, the secretary Dr. E. P. Neale, said that the southern' mails closed at 5 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. and the chamber believed it would be of considerable advantage to the business community if the later leaving of the second express were practicable. The Railway Department pointed out, however, that the arrival of the train ai Wellington later than 1 p.m. introduced complications at that end —'ative t'. mail deliveries. It would also cause the clashing of the express with the Wellington suburban traffic on Saturdays. To get over the latter difficulty, this chamber now suggested that on Fridays the express should be dispatched front Auckland two hours later than at present. This wo" 1 - 1 be of considerable con venience to people who worked ,late o'i Fridays. The new suggestion was now being investigated by the Railway Department.