CANTERBURY RAILWAYS.
TO THE EDITOR O? THE PKESS. ■"■< f Sir,—As the above eubjeot is at present so much in evidence, may I point out that a glance at the railway time-table shows very strikingly how unjustly Canterbury is treated in the matter of train services compared with the treatment accorded to other and more sparsely populated districts. Between Auckland and Mercer, a distance of 43 miles, there are fonr trains each way daily, and every other day an additional train. Between Napier and Waipukurau, 44 miles, four trains each way daily. Between Dunedin and Palmerston, 41 miles, four trains each way daily. Between InvercargiU and Clinton, 66 miles, four trains daily each way. Whereas between Christchurch and Ashburton, 55 miles, there are but three daily trains, whilst between Christchurch and Waipara, 41 miles, a section regarded by the Department as most profitable, there are but two trains per day. Apparently the Traffic Managers on the other provincial sections study tshe public convenience a good deal more than does the D.T.M. at Christchurch. But then it is a great thing to get "kudos" for running a line cheaply.—Yours, Ac, C. A. TOBIX.
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10266, 8 February 1899, Page 3
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