TE ARO RAILWAY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 97, 25 April 1913, Page 2

TE ARO RAILWAY

EXTENSION AND IMPROVEMENT. The Te Aro Railway Extension and Improvement League, which claims to represent 30,000 votes in the city and suburbs, has forwarded a circular letter to every candidate for election to the City Council and Harbour Board, asking for support in its objects. These are briefly stated as follow :— (1) The extension of the passenger service at Te Aro Railway Station. (2) The establishment of a goods depot' at Te Aro, also timber and other sidings, to avoid tbo preseht cumbersome, costly, and antiquated method of carting goods into the city proper from the extreme northkAt. portion of it. The executive has in view the running of the Main Trunk and other trains to Te Aro, not only for the convenience of city travellers, but also to enable the Harbour Board to carry out a suggestion made by if.s engineer, namely, the building of a special passenger wharf between the Taranaki-street and Clydequay wharves, for the purpose, of running the through trains right alongside the Lyttelton and Sydney ferry steamers. This would remove the present reproach the city is suffering from, by nofc providing reasonable facilities for the transference of through railway passengers and their luggage. The league invites the co-operation of both City Council and Harbour Board in furthering its objects.