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The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1888. CENTRAL OTAGO RAILWAY.

The Dunedin. people seem bent on having the Central Otago Railway made at once to as far into the interior as the Taieri Lake, or to the entrance to the Maniototo Plain. There was a mass meeting m Dunedin on Monday night, and from the tone of that meeting it may be considered that whether Mr Pyke's Central Utago Railway Construction 1 Bill is carried or not the line must be gone on with. The same feeling which animates Christchurch and Canterbury generally t fight for the Midland Railway is at work m Dunedin and the portion of ■■ tago which will be traversed by the railway. The opposition to the conBtruction of the line by a private company does not seem to grow at all, though Sir Kobert Stout is very decided m his opposition to a private company making the line on the land grant! system. The fact that the Government are indifferent to the railway and even opposed to it seems now to spur the southerners to greater exertions to have it made by some means or other, and if the Government will not carry out tbe work themselves then they must not oppose any scheme which would ere long result m the line being completed. A good deal of money is now lying unproductive, sunk at present m the Central Otago Railway so far as it goes, and to make the section now completed of any value the line must be pushed on some considerable distance to open out a country which will be a feeder to the line and make it remunerative. The Manawatu Railway Company is cited as an example of success, and the lands along that line .are being thrown open for settlement, so that the argument of those who oppose the land grant system, on the ground of the undesirability of alienating large blocks of land to private owners, does not stand close inspection. The idea that if the syndicate gets hold of large areas of good land they will hold it m large blocks, and thus impede the class of settlement we should desire most to see, is not altogether a likely one. By cutting up the land adjacent to the line m sections likely to sell well, the syndicate will make much more than by holding on to it. Whether they cut it up or not pist at present, they cannot make away ■ with the land. If they intend their speculation to be a success settlement must come with the construction of the line. Even if a few pounds are made by a private company constructing the line they are entitled to a profit on their venture. No one would grudge that; but it it can be shown that a company could make such a good thing out of it why should not the Government at once take the railway m hand. If the interior of the country is to be opened up, and if the opening up of it is shown to be a decided advantage, and Government will not see it, no obstacles should be placed m the way of a private company undertaking the formation of the line on a principle which is reckoned fair enough m other parts of the colony.

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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1902, 26 July 1888, Page 2

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The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1888. CENTRAL OTAGO RAILWAY. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1902, 26 July 1888, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1888. CENTRAL OTAGO RAILWAY. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1902, 26 July 1888, Page 2

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