SUBURBAN SERVICES.

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 40, 15 February 1918, Page 2

SUBURBAN SERVICES.

TO THE EDITOR,

Sir, —I am astonished to find that tjd partial reinstatement of the suburbt: evening .train service is only to extend! the .Lower.-Hutt: The 9.15 could suref run to Upper Hutt and return to Larn| ton same evening, and still act as the la|train from Lower Hutt, But perhaj this crude new time-table evolved by tl railway authorities is only another infj cation that the- vendetta of tha Devja S ment against the "superior persons'" 1 Heretavmga and the Defence officials | still to be kept up, notwithstanding t! appeals of the National Government t unity. The 'suburban line'extends to-1 Upper Hutt, and' if there is to be | reinstatement it is unfair to favour '6: ; section of the line only. Perhaps t officials will say they are treating t other centres in the same way, but thij , have no Trent-ham Camp with, its laij surrounding population to be consider^ It must surprise'many visitors ■to fi| thr.t this district has no connection \v| the city after. 6 p.m. Do the offici| realise the storm that will be raised-1 the' Second Division men when they ;|" into camp if this isolation is persisted if Under tho existing' time-table, UpH \ Hutt residents have only one even} (Saturday) to visit Wellington, and ill they must leave at latest at 6.25 p.: for" the city, and they cannot by a . chance get. homo till-Sunday mormr as the only returning train leaves Left ton at 11.00 p.m. Even if my suggest! . 'to run the 9.15 to Upper Hutt eve. nicht is objected to, they might well g|. it'a trial on, say. Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. When the Hon. 1. M. Wj .. ford joined the'Cabinet,-I had vision« ; J-; powerful assistance being rendered tot|; Hon. Mr. Heyvies in his efforts to cfih vince the railway officers of the needs common-sense, business-like methods I|'. ing introduced into their DepartmeH' but, alas! I see no sign of a strong haf in this feeble effort to solve the suburb}.. traffic difficulty. Perhaps, however, it| only a tentative time-table, and I ea|- : estlV hope that something moro reasM • able will soon be substituted.—TamfetJ, 151 h February. ' j