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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5873, 3 July 1890, Page 2

TnnVotid people of Woodville seem to have worked themselves up into « state of indignation and excitement over the prospect of certain changes that »• usfc be made in respeot of railway management when the Hue is opened to Palmerston. It stands to reuson that it will make some little difference to Woodville when that statiou ceases to be a terminus. As a terminus it is of someimportance, but as a side station it will be no more important than Kaikora. Wo understand that as yet nothing is absolutely decided upon, but it is probable that Diiiievirke will be fixed upon as a terminal for purposes of timber traffic. Hence to Dauevirke will be sbiftod the coal and locomotive sheds, and tho homes of two guards, two engine drivers, and two stokers. Between Woodville and Danevirke there is no traffic worth speaking about, tho whole of tho timber trade being between Dauevirke and Takapau. It was a question which of these two statione should be terminal when connection with Wellington should be completed; in any case it could not be Woodville, for, in the first place, it is too close to Palmerston, and secondly it is too far from the point at which the timber traffic, commences. _ The cry that has been raieod that tb.6 policy of the Commissioners will force the trade of Woodville from Napier to Wellington is pure nonsense, and was, apparently, only got up to securo Napier sympathy. Woodville, like other places, will buy in the cheapest and most convenient market. The whole fuse is duo to tho prospect of the removal of six families from the township.