SECOND EDITION.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 96, 21 October 1908, Page 5

SECOND EDITION.

THE PREMIER. • — . — [PRESS ASSOCIATION.] FEILDING, -to-day. Sir Joseph Ward left here this morning for Palmerston. He was thanked by the Mayor for making Feilding a stopping place for the Main Trunk express. 'The' Premier replied it would be impossible to ignoi'e a place like JJleiWing, vri-fch the magnificent back country ii possessed, and ho felt sure the traffic would jnstif y the arrangement. PALMERSTON'S WANTS. PALMERSTON N., to-day. A deputation representing the Chamber of Commerce and Manawatu A.' and P. Association, waited on the Premier "to-day with several requests, including, the post office to be elevated to the status of chief post office ; extension x of telephone service with surrounding centres ; freight rates on Manawatu railway; when Government assumes control ; and establishment of a bond at Palmerston.The» first request, the Premier said, it was impossible to grant. The office was already in possession of all the advantages of a chief post office. To grant all the telephonic requests, now made. :would cost about £7,000,000" I awl the present service with Wei- j lington could not be improved. On the question of rates on the W. and JVL Railway,;- he indicated there was ' not much .likelili9od of the present ! fighting rite being maintained, but he said the probability of ; competition ! by sea fatiffic to' Foxton would have to be considered. To expend large sums of money in; . improving the facilities between Wellington, Longburn, and Palmerstoii, and maintain the present' rates, ■ savored of burning the candle :at;bot-h ends. Sir Joseph Ward left by the mid-' day train for Wellington.