COLD FEET.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 280, 7 August 1909, Page 3

COLD FEET.

THREE BELOW ZEEO V. 3 PEE CENT. , Some weeks ago the intense cold of 'train travelling on frosty mornings prompted regtflar suburban passengers beyond Lower Hntt to complain-loud and bitterly against the railway- authorities in- not providing footerf A mOT % as the, ..northernonders had.perforce every. morning' to" "waft" ten minutes at Lower Hutt Station while additional carnages were (and are still) added to an already frigid train length. .After several weeks misery, and in close proximity to brighter and warmer days, Mr. Wilford; M.P has succeeded m extracting the following rei ply,-wliich speaks for itself;- - ™ , 1 .~ SIr ,V I V,?? investigation that there 'are WwffV 1 ? *t* Way °* 3 P r . o "'ding suburban tram witlr footwarmers during . the present winter Xo give, satisfactory • service, a con-' siderable number.' of footwarmers would- bo ; required, and furnaces for heating are required. The number of footwarmers at present available is insufficient to supply both tne long-distance trains and suburban■ services'•' and as the equipment of the latter would mean, withdrawal of the appliances from' lohg-dis-tanoo trains—a procedure that vou do not I feel sure'desire-I regret being unable to co'in--s™T'l h M ) '°; , r,' L havD - .however,'| directed that the question of augmenting supplies and. erecting, furnaces bo considered so that provision may be made to meet requireR-??, "K. next winter .-I am, "etc., J. .A. Millar, Minister for Railways."