NEW TIME-TABLES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 691, 16 December 1909, Page 8

NEW TIME-TABLES.

.r : v —; —; -. .'. COMPLAINTS IN PARLIAMENT. Vigorous protests against tho altered time' tables of local train services wero made in the House of Representatives "yesterday. Replyinp to questions by Mr. Wilford and Mr. Field, tht Hon. J. A. Millar stated that tho'train whict it is desired should lift the milk-from Mungaroj is a passenger train from Woodville Which ha; to reach Wellington in time to conueefwith th< south-going ferry steamer, and takes tho plac< of the old Napier-Wellington mail train. It i: .not practicable to give effect to the suggeatibi to stop this train at Mungaroa to shunt on t van containing milk. Neither this nor th( Manawatu service can bo altered to meet the needs of school children. Trains .arranged : tc suit schools in one portion of a' district woulc bo unsuitable for those in other portions. • Mr. Wilford contradicted a statement by : tk< Minister that tho time-tablo had been revisci for the purpose of meeting in the best possibh way tho requirements of tho district served. Th< roarrangeuient of the services could not havi been carried out.iu a more slipshod manner and he did not believo consideration had beei given to tho requirements of the district-or tin convenienco of the public. Every representa tion made to tho.Department had been disre gardod. He could not understand tlio action o] tho Government,- unless Ministers'were so busj that thoy had had nothing to do with the re arrangoment. Tho Mungaroa people, wh( largely'served Wellington with milk, had no\i to start milking at 3 a.m. beforo crossing tin mountains to Upper Hutt to catch ah carliei train than that previously used. He had ever received a letter from onflof them stating thai tho .Department had refused to carry back tin milk cans on certain trains from Wellington t( ;allow them to bo refilled and tent back. Oivhu to tho now service, the school children of Silver stream; and Mungaroa--lost two -hours schoo! each day, and even more iiinortant was (ho ilis location of tho work of teaching. Mr. Buchanan .(Wairarapa) said that no in quirr was made by tho Department before hand as to tho .requirements'of school children •Tlio Department should manago its business ir abetter way than that. The Railway Depart mont ovidently cared notliing for the busmes' entrnstedto its charge or'for; the interests oi Itho'pUblic, ... -