SEASIDE TRAINS.

Evening Star, Issue 17791, 13 October 1921, Page 2

SEASIDE TRAINS.

TO TUB EDITOR. Sir,—Tho cheese-paring policy of the Bailway Department in cutting out tho seaside trains is another backward step for Otago. Why the people boro stand for this sort of treatment ia beyond mo. Tiie Otago folks ought to bo proud of their scenic resorts, and should jealously guard against any diminution- of the railway service. Melbourne or Sydney cannot hold a caudle to Otago in respect to ecenic resorts, and the local people should see to it that the facilities' for seeing

these places should not he curtailed. There is one point that the railway officials have probably overlooked, and it is this. Quite a number of women and children have cottages at the seaside, and go there on tha Saturday ramming previous to tho 1.20 train, so ns to got the whole day in. Tho men go by the 1.30. Now, the sarno thing applies on the Monday, j '1 nr early mornim- noun is patrovit-d l.y those who have of necessity to bo in town Ito start business; other;; .travel by .later | trains, and I know of a. mimbej who do ; not come in till Monday night. iVrv.onj .'dly, I have never used the early morning train. Now, my point in that nil those fare-, should be 'credited to the U3O p.m. on Saturday and 6.30 a.in. on Monday. The other trains have to run, and it Ja immaterial which train people use. My contention is that it you cut out the 1.30 p.in. train, then the department will get none of these fares from any of the trains, | If visitors are arriving here what chance, have we of showing them the beauties of Otago if there arc no train facilities ? It is not everyone’s (rood fortune to possess a motor, and these people who have built cottages out of town, and have been a source of revenue to the rahvays, should certainly be. considered and their wishes acceded- to.—l am, etc., G. Moody. October 12.