TE ARO RAILWAY STATION

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3165, 17 August 1917, Page 8

TE ARO RAILWAY STATION

NOT FOR MILK TAKEN OVER BY THE DEFENCE DEPARTMENT On Tuesday it was suggested to the Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) by the directors of the Wellington Dairy Farmers'- Association that it would be a great advantage to them and to the city were a temporary clearing-house established in Wellington, and on Mr. W. Strand's suggestion it was decided to approach Mr. E. 11. Hiley (General Manager of Government Hallways) and ' see if it would be possiblo to secure the temporary use of tho western platform of the at present disused Te Aro Railwav Station. Yesterday morning the directors of the association, together with the Mayor, Councillors J. O. Shorla-.id, IJ. A Wright, J': Castle, and W. H. Bennett (of the Public Health Committee), the City Engineer (Mr. W. H. Morion), and the Chief Railway Engineer (Mr. JF. \X: M'Lean), in tho absence of Mr. Hiley, visited the Te Aro Railway Station; Whilst there, Mr. M'Lean gently broko tho news to the party that tho station itself and the platforms were to bo used by the Defence Department in the near iuture. It was proposed that the station building should bo supplemented by a largo structure at either end, by roofing over the area covered by the tracks, which would be floored over. There was other land available on the railway block at the western end, but (hat would mean erecting an entirely new structure altogether, which was out of tho question, for if tlioy wero to built it might as well bo part of the permanent blockto bo erected as soon as Iho money is available. <

Jhe parly nVjt visited the site of tho old horse-car sheds in Adelaido .Road, winch has lain fallow ever since tho horse-cars, disappeared inlo tho past, •this site,, other than tho fact that it is not in the mid-city area, was favourably considered. Its Advantages aro that frotii a; strictly residential point of viow (ho silo is fairly conlrnl, it has frontage* to three streets, and thero is an iimplo are?, for all requirements. With such a site—or almost any other—milk trains would bo necessary, ■and once the milk is transferred from the train to tho cars, it makes little difference if it is taken half a mile or'two miles. At the samo time it would reduce tho time of delivery for all people in Wellington houth, Island Bay, Kilbir:iie, and Lyall Bay, as well as being handy to the dense-ly-populated To Aro (Wellington Central) district. No decision has yet been arrived at, but tho prospective milk manager, Mr. K, jr. Oliver, will arrive from Cbristchurch to-day on a, consultative mission. Thai; sontleman's appointment was made only provisionally on tho council being able to provide tho money to carry out tho scheme.