JOHNSONVILLE LINE

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 19, 22 July 1932, Page 12

JOHNSONVILLE LINE

FUTURE IN' DOUBT

The position as regards the railway service was going to be very difficult, said Mr. H. L. Cunnnings, chairman, at last evening's annual meeting of the Ngaio Piogressivo Association, and the committee ia*the future would have to watch it veiy closely. When conditions improve, the 3iccd would be- for an up-to-date tiain Service. Tiains would give a better and cheaper service than any other form of transport. Concerning the cost to the working man, rates on trains were lower than'those obtainable elsewhere.

Another speaker raised the question of trains on the Johnsouvillo line not being run to Lamb ton Station. Thcro was now a new goods shed at Thorndon Station, instead of the old one at Lambton Station, thus removing one objection to the running of the trains to Lambtou Station. The stumbling block iv the past was that the lay-out of the yard was not finished, and it •« as time that a definite movo was made in getting the plan completed. He thought trains were preferable to a tram service.

The following lesolution was pass od:—"That this meeting protests against tho delay in runningl Johnsonville trains to Lambton Station."