POLITICAL NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8021, 29 September 1906, Page 2

POLITICAL NOTES.

By Telegraph.—Special to Waikato Times.) WELLINGTON, This Day. FRANKTON RAILWAY STATION. Mr Greenslade this afternoon gave notice of bis intention to ask the Minister of Railways whtther in view of the great dinger to life and limb that now exists because of the absence of reasonable arrangements at Frank-ton Railway Station for pedestrian traffic, he will this session place a sum on the Estimates for the erection of a footbridge or the construction of a subway in order to place matters upon a more satisfactory basis. MAIL SERVICE IMPROVEMENTS. Mr Greenslade also gave notice to ask the Postmaster General whether he will instruct the Chief Postmaster at Auckland to call tenders for a weekly mail service io place of the fortnightly present one between Kawhia and Kiritehera and Marakopa Heads. The present service is practically useless for the outward mail fmm Kiritehere, as a resident of the district cannot afford to wait two weeks to get loiters away. It is at least a weekly occurrenoe that a settler or Maori proceeding to Tenaika, seventeen miles over bush track, takes in fifty or sixty letters. The Land Bill will nut emerge from the Lands Committee until Tuesday next. In reply to a question by llr Fraser this ''f'., r noon the Premier said it was not corrrtJt that a crisis had occurred in the Lancta Committee respecting, t Bill. . -