TE ARO STATION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 101, 29 April 1912, Page 8

TE ARO STATION.

SHOULD IT BE USED FOR GOODS TRAFFIC? MEETING OF CHAMBER OP COMMERCE. A special meeting of the members of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce was held this afternoon for the purpose of considering the attitude of the council in reference to the Te Aru Railway Station. Mr. Mabin, president of the council, presided. Amongst the apologies for absence was one from Mr. G. Slirrtcliffe, in which he said he was opposed to the establishment of a goods station at Te Aro. and expressed, the opinion that the drawbacks and risks following upon the running of trains through the city should be minimised as far as possible. 'Mr. A. T. Clark wrote expressing a con trary opinion. About thirty members were present. Mi*. A. Leigh Hunt, in explaining the reasons for. the calling of the .meeting, read from the last annual report of tho chamber in which the idea of making Te Aro a goods station was endorsed. Recently he Wats surprised to find there was considerable opposition to the proposal to establish a goods station at Te Aro, and an amendment was actually carried asking the Government to pull up the line from Lambton to Te Aro. In this he thought the council had rather stultified the chamber. He moved that the policy outlined in the last report should be endorsed, and that the council be instructed to carry the policy previously outlined into effect. H» aigued that if the line from Lambton to Te Aro were used for goods traffic it would I be an immense convenience to the people in South Wellington, and would in, all probability bo turned from a losing into a paying concern. There would we no difficulty in getting sufficient land for ehunting the trains. « (Proceeding.)