WELLINGTON'S RAILWAY STATION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 112, 13 May 1910, Page 8

WELLINGTON'S RAILWAY STATION.

DEPUTATION TO THE PRIME MINISTER. Wellington's two railway termini and the unimportant appearance of the three i airway btations of the city have long given cause for discontent to the majority of citizens and railway travellers. The distance between Thorndon and Lambton stations and the peculiar position of Te Aro with respect to main lines traffic have been discussed over and over again in considering the pressing need for one central railway station in keeping with the size and importance of the city. When a deputation from the lato Mayor (Dr. Newman) and City Council recently waited on the Prime Minister with reference to the inclusion of a portion of Sydney-street in the grounds of the old and new Parliamentary Buildings, an effort was then made to ascertain the Minister's view on a modern, central, and adequate railway terminus ; but the deputation got but little information out of the interview in so far as the site for a central railway station itself was concerned. The Prime Minister is receiving a deputation on the subject this afternoon. The City Council has been successful in enlisting the co-operation of the neighbouring local bodies, and other representative organisations in the matter. It has prepared what is considered to be a strong case for a definite and favourable Government pronouncement on the matter, and is further inspired by the hope that the pressing need of the citizens and travelling public generally may be met as early as posible by the erection of a station'worthy of the city.