SPEEDING-UP TRAINS.
I AN UNPOPULAR DIVERSION. [Pkii United Press Association.] j NAPIER, May 29. A special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held yesterday to protest I against the movement to divert tho NapierI Wellington express from the Manaw.otu ; route back to the Wairarapa. In the course j of the discussion iU was pointed out that while the Napier people had been agitating for the "speeding up" of trains, with a I view to cutting down the time occupied j on the journey between Napier and S\Vl- - lington, the proposed diversion would menu i extending tho time from 9h 32min to lOh I oOmin. A deputation was apjtointed to ! interview the- Hon A. M. Myers to-morrow. | and to emphatically protest against the I proposal.
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Evening Star, Issue 14888, 29 May 1912, Page 10
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125SPEEDING-UP TRAINS. Evening Star, Issue 14888, 29 May 1912, Page 10
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