MARTON 9.20 TRAIN MAY BE RE-SCHEDULED

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6671, 26 July 1928, Page 11

MARTON 9.20 TRAIN MAY BE RE-SCHEDULED

MINISTER CONSIDERS REQUEST. ' TimcS'Spdeial. ■ * ' From Our Own Parliamentary Reporter. WELLINGTON, Last Night/ ; Investigations are bbing mado into tho possibility of ro-schcduling the 9.30 a.m. train front Marten and thqiqucstion of starting.'the tfdinHalf ftw hour earlier will receive favourable consideration,, if found practicable, the Minister of Railway, Mr. Coates, advised Mr. W . S. Glenn (Rangitikoi) in the House to-day. ~. .. i Mr. Glenn urged, that, the alteration In the timetable in the-direction Bug'gested ‘would meet tho convenience of the farmers to a very great'extent. No chanco for Felldlng. .That /F.eilding. has little ,chance of being made a stopping place for. the, Litnitcd expresses between Auckland and Wellington was indicated when Mr. Coates replied to a question on the subject, by Mr. J. G. Elio.tt (Oroua), Mr. Coates said; that- ali express traips with the exception of tho,** Night Limited” expresses how stop at Feilding. Tho ‘ ‘ Limited ’ ’ expresses wore run on a' schedule, that • did hot permit of tho introduction erf additional stops, and'he regre.tted ho could not agree to tho Fe'ilding stops' for those, trains. . As the name implied those trains were limited, both as regards stops hud accommodation, and were introduced to meet the insistent demand for expeditious travel between Auckland ‘ and Wellington . This demand could not- post sibly be met by the institution of additional stops, and clearly therefore any action in the direction suggested dm the question would defeat the very- cud which the institution... of this train was designed to meet. '