RAILWAY AND POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS.
To-day sees the inaguration of a newajid improved railway service including the long promised double service between Auckland and Wellington. The present 3 0 p.m. train Frankton to TeKuiti will be replaced on every week -day by a train leaving at 4 5 p.m and reaching Te Awamutu at 5 30 p.m. A goods train with second class car attached will leave Te Kuiti for Frankton daily at 3 5 p.m. also reaching Te Awamutu at 5 30. The present 8 10 a.m. train Taumarunui to Frankton Jn will start out at 7 30 a.m. reaching Te Awamutu at 11.35 a.m. instead of at 12.15 P-'U- as heretofore.
Mail arrangements will refnain unaltered with the exception of the Northern mails (11.30 a,m.), which will in future close at the Te Awamutu Post office at 10.50 a.m. (40 minutes earlier). The posting box at the railway station will be cleared at 10,15 a.m. Coaches will leave the town at a correspondingly earlier hour. Had Te Awamutu been.a stopping place for the second main trunk express, this earlier hour for departure would not have been necessary.
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Waipa Post, Volume IV, Issue 159, 1 November 1912, Page 2
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188RAILWAY AND POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS. Waipa Post, Volume IV, Issue 159, 1 November 1912, Page 2
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