THE RAILWAY TIME-TABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9734, 22 July 1910, Page 5

THE RAILWAY TIME-TABLE.

r>!R. iIOGG ON THE SUBJECT

Oil receiving an unfavourable ivpiy from tho Minister oi' K:iihvays,' io the House OD Wednesday, t'.> the question Ms to whether the old viir.o-table in Wairarapa would be reverted to, Mr Hogg stated that lie did not impute blame to the Minister, but he declared that the department, by altering the time of certain trains, had done Wairarapa, from Grey town to WoodvilLo, a great injustice Why the alteration was made he did not know, except that; the Minister constantly said ho had been asked to change the train by so mo people who wanted to get from Wnirarapa to Palmerstoj North and. back on the same day. The Minister said these applications had been m;-.do for years. He would ask the Minister whether lie (Mr Hogg) Mart not for years been oskint? him to run a night train, to Eketabuna, so that the people of the mile Bnsh mitrht bo able to go to Wellingfiou and return on tlio same day. He presumed a few sfock-owuers iv Wairurapa had:lieeu writing persistently to riie Department because they wanted occasionally to attend the stock sales iv Palmerstou, but that was no reason why a large community all along the Jine—workers, settlers, business residents, and District High Schools—should suffer. Kxcept when Shows occurred at ' Palinerston, he ventured to say the traffic between Wairarapa, Mastorton, Paiiiatua and Palmerstou was insignificant. The real traffic! of the district was between Greytowu, Mastorcon, Eketahnua, Pahiatua and Woodvillo. The alteration of tlio tinio-tablo had put everybody to loss and incouvonienee, robbing the workers in the towns of their chance of going to work in the country, depriving the children of the, settlors of their chance of reaching the secondary classes, and compelling business people and farmers to Jose a whole day visiting the market towns when formerly they could transact all their business and get back, to their homes in a forenoon.

Mr Ross (Paliiatua) followed with a strong protest against the way in which the train [services woro mutilated.