AN ONSET FOR TE ARO

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 136, 5 December 1912, Page 8

AN ONSET FOR TE ARO

- March to the minister-.."Vigorc-us in the recent past, the Te 'Ai'o Railway Improvement and Extension "League is determined to continue fitjftting Strenuously to achieve its ideals. The gains of the campaign to date are •ttio Ministerial promise of a goods?Keff.Und the use of Te Aro as the teri|finu6 r of the Wairarapa mail trainE. The passengers to and from that station tfy these .trains have not been numerous, fcfpf, explanation of that paucity is simpie, says- the league. The Railway De.fjWtment has not advertised this ar* r#ifgemertt in town or country, and has not; even bothered to mention it in the <3hcial time-table. How, then, is pasfierigfer* tfaffic to be promoted, when the ..people are left in ignorance of the facili"ires?- This question is to be brought be•fore the Minister (the Hon. W. H. ferries) by a strong deputation, which ■ will call, at the head office on Saturday jfiofning at 10.30 o'cl6ck. All citizens Who"' aTe interested in a better railway service to suit tho convenience of a very large proportion of the population are 'iflvited to support the deputation by personal attendance. In addition, the league will request the Minister to solve the problem of a site for the promised and the shunting space necessary for the enlargement of goods ahd passenger traffic. Plenty of suitable land adjoins the station, but the owner, the Wellington Harbour Board, states -that it needs the ground for its own purposes. The Minister will be urged tp take 1 all reasonable action to obtain sufficient land for the railway facilities to which he is committed. The league is busy with plans to thoroughly remind country people about the running of the Wairarapa mail trains >*<> Te Aro, At present it is impossible 'to book right through from a country «fciltion to Te Aro. The league's earnest wjsh is to have a fair trial for this ser* '^Tvice-., ■