TE ARO STATION

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 140, 13 June 1912, Page 8

TE ARO STATION

♦ i PETITION FOR IMPROVEMENT. Over 6000 eignatures^Tiave been- obtained by the Wellington Railway Exten sion and Improvement League to the petition to Parliament. The petition sets forth "that in view 'pf the great expansion of industrial and commercial interests and growth of population in Central, South, and East Wellington and euburbs, and of the inevitable extension of the railway at no distant date, an improvement of the Te Aro Railway Station both in respect of passenger traffic and goods facilities is most urgent. Tho station is situated near the geographical centre of the city, and its development and improvement must necessai'ily remove the present acute disabilities suffered by the majority of the citizens, owing tothe present main railway et&tion» being situated at the extreme northern end of the city." The petition states further that tho suggestion of the engineer of tho Harbour Board to provide special -\rharf facilities near the Te Aro Station for the Lyttelton and Sydney ferry traffic further justifies the requests contained in it. The heavy cost of carriage of goods to and from the Lambton and Thorndon Stations would- be greatly reduced by the establishment of a goods shed at Te Aro, it is held. The petitioners pi ay (1) that the mail and other pa&senger trains may bo run to and from the Te Aro Station, and (2) that a goods shed may be established at Te Aro Station.