EDENDALE RAILWAY STATION.

Southland Times, Issue 19278, 24 June 1924, Page 2

EDENDALE RAILWAY STATION.

To the Editor. Sir, —Will you please give me space b your columns to express my indignation and annoyance at the way Edendale residents and general travelling public are treated by the Railway Department in the matter of lamps or lights on the load | railway platform. : On our streets and in our houses we have I the electric light and I understand the | electric light could be installed at the platform at a cost from ten to fifteen pounds, I which would soon be saved in kerosene ! and lamp glasses. When coming down the j line we pass Gore and Mat aura stations and ' notice that they both have the electrio i light on their platforms. We come further !on to Edendale and oh, what a change! | Although our platform is almost as largo (if not as large) as Mataura, a traveller 1 stepping off the train is plunged into aemidarkness. In justice to the Railway Department I should say here that there are lamps on the platform and if the traveller j strikes a match and looks for them he may possibly, after a time, locate them. The lights on Edendale railway platform put one in mind of the words in the poem, The Burial of Sir John Moore: “By the struggling moonbeams misty light and the lanterns dimly burning.” We have represented the case to our member for Mataura and he has tried his best to improve matters, but so far without success. 1 We have come to the conclusion in this I district, that there is no use looking to ! the Reform Government for neceasary com- ; forts and conveniences at our railway station. We would remind Mr Massey and his party that unless something is done soon to remedy the disgraceful state of affairs at our much-used platform, then they may easily count on the votes they 1 have received in this district in the pest I going at next election to a party who will be more progressive and attend to the wants of the travelling public. I am, etc., CANDLE POWER. Edendale, June 23.