SILVERSTREAM'S WANTS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 52, 25 November 1907, Page 5

SILVERSTREAM'S WANTS.

; • / . PUBLIC MEETING. ' A large rind■rcprciientntiyb meeting'of Silverstream;. ' Whitemari's Valley, . and ; 'Stokes ; Valley-'residents attended a public meeting in , Mcn'zie's/s Hall; iiilverstream, on Friday eveningj.lqsti to. discuss railway nnd other.requirements;.. ■•; , ' ':'.,' \MiV.J.,-T. Wilkins (president of .the. Liberal Glubj,-under- whose auspices the meeting was called; wns r voted to the chair.- ; . • ; Several .speakers emphasised the great need of- improved railway, accommodation at tho Silverstream 'Railway Station,-, the platform of which needed- extending at least a.hundred nnd eighty, feet, .while- the present dangerous points fijiquld be : removed further away, aiid. to tho ojiposi.tr. side of the'rails. A milk dock, loading baiii'"v wild goods shed were also urgently ic- , '(jnliii-il ,lo "cope with tho increased freight to .itiijil'irpm the Silverstream'Station,'which ;ind iujf/latc years become one of the most important sidings- between Wellington and ■ Napier. _ I'rom tjie,'Brick'and Tile Company alone the Raii-w.ay-Department' derived several thousand po'ifnds "revenue annually, in addition to tho 'sawmill's contribution and -the milk traffic, ■all-of which demanded special care and atten-tion-throughout the year. ■ A: motion, embodying tho foregoing and other requirements,, was carried, and all present were elected, a deputation, .with power to add to thdir number, to. wait oil the Minister. A-. deputation will wait on the.Xliibt County Council' to lirgo the making of a ford from Stpke's!'Valley- to Hnywards, across the Hutt Ki\%, to which the Government has offered to cOnfributb.ilSOO.- .Postal and telephone matters'were next discussed, and the neglect in this, direction by the department concerned wits in'respect to the cloning on Wednesday afternoons—however-urgent the message^—of the t'eUjphope ■ bureau at Silvcrstrenm, which liad tV; serve Wliiteman's Valley,- Stoke's 'Valley, ; aiidVSilv.erF.l.ream. In. several instances, it is uiiid'to have.been a.matter of life and death. "'The postal'service- at Silverstream was more "or.-'lvs's" a'--.farce, and so antiquated as to be-Tidiculpiis. One-maila day to and from Silverstream, and'both iu the morning at 8 dim. ••and -8.15 a.m.! For instance, a man leaving--Upper Hutt nnd travelling- by the sapie, trnin- as.his letter, arrives at Silverstream in.Tire'or ten minutes, whilst, his letter, addressed to the same place, goes on to Wellington'puts in a whole day and night at.the Genorar Post Office, and is committed to the care of another train back next morning; the earth having meanwhile- spun round on its axis, nearly once, and the clock having rcgistereil twice round and a distance. ■ . • ■ A , deputation was therefore similarly apDpihfed'ito wait on the authorities, and the meeting adjourned, leaving interim matters in of the executive. ,