OUR RAILWAY STATION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 307, 24 November 1934, Page 6

OUR RAILWAY STATION.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—Residents of our city must note with pleasure the changed appearance of our railway station glistening with its new coats of paint, and one and all will agree that it was not before time that it received such attention. But shall we look for a, moment at the engine shed quarter. No amount of paint will obliterate one of the worst eye-sores we have in this quarter, and almost in the centre of our city. One is almost turne<l to laughter to read some of the newspaper correspondence where some residents are grumbling about the dust nuisance. But what -of the smokeladen atmosphere which is always with these other residents, curtains, carpets and even the bed clothes covered with coal smuts ? Add to this the rattle of that steam shovel going more than half the night. Eighty per cent, of the residents in the quarters mentioned had hopes of the railway moving; in fact, some thousands of pounds were already spent on the deviation before a good portion of the Takaro district was settled. However, it was not to be and now we can only look forward to the electrification of our railways when our troubles in this direction will be at an end and a large portion of our residential area will be made fit for people to live in.— I am, etc., ONE OF THEM.