“ABSOLUTE DISGRACE”
NEW RAILWAY STATION ;v Iplpuihuii Bless 'issoeiarion PALMERSTON N., September 2. During a hurricane early in February, the railway station on the Wanganui line at Terrace End, a suburb of Palmerston North, was completely destroyed. The matter of a new station was taken up by the Terrace End Progressive Association, which was promised by the Department that it would erect a station which, in the w’ords of the district engineer, would not give any cause for complaint about the design. Six months after the destructive gale a new building had been erected, much smaller than the previous one, and of most unpretentious design. “It’s an absolute disgrace,” the cnairman of the Association declared when reference to the matter was made at a meeting yesterday. “And -we are sorry the Railway Department has not carried out the promise to the Association.” He added that the design did not conform to the Association’s proposal to beautify the land adjacent to the railway line, by planting shrubs. It was decided to express in strong terms to the General-Manager of Railways, the feeling of residents on the very poor type of building erected.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20513, 3 September 1936, Page 6
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