Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties' Gazette. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1914. Feilding to be Cut Out Again

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2516, 10 December 1914, Page 2

Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties' Gazette. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1914. Feilding to be Cut Out Again

From December 18 to January 0 next, inclusive, an extra train will run from Wellington to Auckland, leaving "Wellington at 2 p.m. During the time the extra express ia running the ordinary train (which leaves Wellington at 1.10 p.m.) will not stop at Feilding or Marton, and the train agent must put all mails for Feilding and Marton, also for Wanganui and Taranaki districts, off at Palmerston, to ba taken on by the train which leaves Wellington at 2 p.m.

Here we are again with the perennial problem of the man higher up, who is determined to cut Feilding out of the running of. the Main Trunk trains. Month in and month out we have to act as .Feilding's watchdog with regard to the stopping of the through trains here. Whenever the railway official who is responsible for the revision of the timetable thinke our attention may be too fuliy occupied with other matters to keep an eye upon his doings— out goes Feilding. Since the newest of the Hiley time-tables came into force it has been bad enough for Feilding business men yvith regard to their mails from Wellington, which are not sorted now until well on to 5.30 p.m. The latest intimation, as published in yesterday's Stab, and reprinted at tho head of this article, makes the caso for business people worse aud worse. We are not to get our mails from the south until the extra express comes along. This means that mails which leave Wellington at 1.10 p.m. will be hungup at Palmerston'and will not get into the private boxes in the Feilding Post Office until after 6 o'clock! That throws everybody and everything out of gear—and all because an extra, train is put on. We are still convinced that Feilding folks, through the Borough Council and flic Chamber of Commerce and the member for this district, must fight for their own hand against the subtle move of officialdom to insert the thin end of a wedge intended to drive this important town and district off tho railway system, so far as the Main Trunk trains are concerned. As we have again and yet again pointed out, why should existing mail arrangements be interfered with? By all moans, put on an extra train—but make it a genuine extra, not a substitute and a disturber of business men's arrangements.