WAIRARAPA TRAINS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1099, 11 April 1911, Page 4

WAIRARAPA TRAINS.

AKOTIIER INJUSTICE TO PETONE."

"I wish (o refer to what I consider :o be another injustice to Petone," said

the Mayor of the borough (Mr. J. \V. M'Ewan) nt the council meeting last evening. "The Wa.irarapa train, which leaves town at i.3j, passes Petone, and arrives at Lower Ilutt at 4.50, where it stops for six minutes. Petone people wishing to go by this train are compelled to walk or take a bus to the Ifutt, or travel to that station by an earlier train. I had a personal experience of this last Wednesday. It is most inconvenient to Petone. 1 don't suggest," he went oil, "that wo should arrange for a deputation to (ho Minister—l am sick and tired of this deputation business, and getting things either through the front door or the back •steps. I suggest that if we have a Kcmune grievance—and I think that this

is one-wo should write to the member tor the district, asking him to take steps "Hour interests." Someone asked whether tho Wairarnna HutT carr suburban cars to the Lower ''Well," said the Mayor, "it stopped oftg enough last Wednesday to put off two cars. "There is no train between 4 o'clock ami 5, except the AYairarapa train," remarked a councillor. CounciUor Short opined that tho best means of redress would be for the council a thZhtnm^ ay * Ptrtaeaivilh On the motion of tho Mayor, seconded fn t°i r was agreed T v -iv'if for tho Hlltt (Mr, L' » "siting him to present tho case for Fetono to the Minister,