THE NEW STATION

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 143, 18 June 1937, Page 14

THE NEW STATION

OPENING TOMORROW

OFFICIAL ARRANGEMENTS

ADDRESS BY LORD

GALWAY

Wellington's new railway station will be opened by his Excellency the Gov-ernor-General (Viscount Galway). at 10.30 a.m. tomorrow. The following arrangements have been made for the reception of guests and visitors:—

The area in lawns and pavements between the nortli side of Bunny Street and the station will be roped off and only those holding invitations will be allowed to enter this enclosure.

Guests' arriving by car will enter via the Bunny Street approach from the Featherston Street side and, after alighting at the main entrance, their cars will proceed on and leave the enclosure through the Bunny Street exit near Waterloo Quay, where they will proceed to the parking area arranged on Waterloo Quay, north of Bunny Street. No parking will be allowed in Featherston Street between the old Lambton Station and Bunny Street, nor will any parking be allowed on the north side of Bunny Street between Featherston Street and Waterloo Quay. Only official Government cars will be permitted to park in the station frontage enclosure.

Invitation-holder; who walk to the station may enter by the footpath along the front of the building from either Featherston Street or Waterloo Quay, 0.. by the central pedestrian pavement leading from Bunny Street to the main entrance. All invitation-holders, excepting those allotted seats on the of ficial platform, are requested to . be seated by 10.10 a.m. at the latest, and all other guests not later than 10.20 a.m. Eutry will be through the main entrance ih Bunny Street and all guests will be received there.

The general public will be admitted to the main concourse and platforms through the mam suburban entrance in Featherston Street, and by the footpath at the north end of the station in Waterloo Quay.

LOUDSPEAKERS AND MUSIC.

Loudspeakers will be placed in the concourse and platforms and also outside facing Featherston Street and Bunny J-Street. The New Zealand Air Force Band will march (weather permitting) from the Central Fire Brigade station via Jervois Quay, Customhouse Quay, Ballance Street, and Featherston Street to the Featherston Street entrance to the station, and take up a position at the head of the main departure platform, where it will play incidental music between 9.45 a.m. and 12.30 p.m.

The plan published in this issue clearly indicates the routes of approach and exit at the station.

From 1 p.m. to 3.30 p.m. those parts of the public utility purposes and social amenities will be open for inspection by the public, and the Railway Department is providing guides to facilitate the inspection. Points of special interest will doubtless be the children's nursery, with its sleeping room, play room, and outside playground on the sixth floor of the building; also the general waiting-rooms which open from the concourse and the ladies' spacious rest room on the first floor, novel features being bathrooms and a specially-equipped room to meet any emergency case of sickness. The rest room is approached by a stairway which adjoins the ladies' general wait-ing-room on the ground .floor. .

THE SPEAKERS,

The programme will open with the arrival of his Excellency Viscount Galway, P.C. G.C.M.G., D.5.0., 0.8. E., at the main entrance to the station at 10.30 a.m. This will be followed by brief addresses from the platform in tlie entrance hall of the station. The speakers will be the Minister of Railways (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan), the Acting Prime Minister (the Hon. P. Fraser). the Mayor (Mr. T. C A. Hislop), the Hon. Sir Alfred Ransom. K.C.M.G., M.P., and Mr. C. H. Chapman. M.P. Loud speakers have been provided in this hall as well as on the platforms and ' other outside portions of the station for the convenience of listeners to the ceremony, which will be broadcast by the National Broadcasting 2YA- Station. His Excellency will be presented with a gold key by the architect, Mr. W. Gray Young, after which he will give a brief address and then unlock the main entrance door of the station and also unveil the commemoration stone which records the official opening of the station.

The Minister of Railways has invited the guests at the ceremony to morning tea in the station at the conclusion of the official ceremony. However, as the dining-room on the ground floor is not large enough to accommodate all the guests, it will be necessary for morning tea to be also served in the social rooms on the fifth floor and the seating tickets forwarded to guests indicate this.

As only one lift is available from the entrance hall where, the guests will be assembled, it will be desirable for those who are able to do so to use the stairway (immediately opposite the lift) for the purpose of reaching the social rooms and the upper floors when inspecting the building after the function.

At 11.22 a.m. today, the Fire Brigade received a call to attend a fire in a wash-house at .14 McFarland Street, owned by Mr. K. J. Mack. The fire waSj quickly extinguished and little damage was done.