CORRESPONDENCE

Southland Times, Issue 19224, 14 May 1921, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE

TOWN RAILWAY ACCOMMODATION. To the Editor. Sir, —It must surely appear strange to many people that there is insufficient railway accommodation for the larger part o* the people of this town. The main part of the town is sitvated from East to South of Spey street, yet everything has to be carted from the one station. Everywhere in the country along a railway line where there are half a dozen farmers there is a siding and loading bank but three-quarters of the population, or some twelve thousand people have no such facilities here in Invercargill. It costs more to cart a truck load of any material, if it is coal, wood, furniture, road metal, or anything else to Elies Road, East Invercargill, Lindisfarne, Georgetown or the end of Clyde street than it costs in railway freight from a considerable distance. There should be sidings at Elies Road, Clyde Street and Gladstone. Firing for people must be very dear in these areas, especially in winter when coal and wood has to be bought and brought in bags. If there was such railway accommodation as indicated a number of householders could get a truck of wood or coal between them if it was railed to the nearest siding. The Town Council should have taken action in this matter long ago, as it should be directly their business.—l am, etc., N. A. NIEDERER.