THE RAILWAY TIME-TABLE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 135, 4 December 1909, Page 7

THE RAILWAY TIME-TABLE.

NO FUETHER ALTERATIONS. Deputitions *'from Taranaki, deputations from the Wairarapa, deputations from Hawkes Bay have volleyed and thundered at the new time-table, summarised in Tho Post last week; but their ammunition has been fired in vain. The new schedule remains intact, and will come into force on Monday, on the lines snown in the time-table books that have been issued. The Minister" (the Hon. J. A. Millar) has definitely indicated that no changes will bo made before the holiday season is finished. It is possible that after the new arrangement has been tried for some weeks a few readjustments may be made. The chief features of the new scheme are the changes in the express services. The ordinary Main Trunk mail train will depart from Thorndon at 12.15 p.m., and the extra express at 8.55 p.m. The New Plymouth mail will leave at 9.10 a.m., and the Napier mail at 10.50 a.m. The new times of arrival in Wei lington will be — From Auckland, 7.21 a.m. and 4.7 p.m. ; from New riymouth, 7.23 p.m.; fron- Napier, 5.15 ■p.m. The hours of departure and arrival of tho Wellington-Lyttelton steamers are not to bo changed. All the main train alterations, except the inward New Plymouth service, which remains unaltered, give more time to travellers to catch the steamers. From 17th December till 3rd January, holiday tickets, at excursion rates, will •be obtainable, and they will be available for return journeys till 15th February. Tho proposed increase of fares for ordinary long-distance trips (Id a mils second^claos, and l£d a mile firstclass, charged right through) will not come into force till after the holidays.