THE BULLER RAILWAY.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16856, 9 June 1920, Page 7

THE BULLER RAILWAY.

| TO THE EDITOR OP "THE PRESS." I Sir, —The question of tho Bulleri Jleefton railway completion having | again cropped up, having a fair know- | iedge of many parts of this Island, mv is that next to the finishing of | the Otira tunnel, tho Bulliir-Recfton ! .'ine is next in importance. During | 1904 I spent about sis months on tho Buller at the Inangahua Junction. I therefore know that district, *nd were 1 a butting man, I would lay the Hon. J. G. Coatos long odds on tho j'iece of lino from the Inangahua Junction down to Westport producing more wealth for j the Dominion than four times its length ' North of Auckland. As a matter of j tact, it is richer in combined coal nrid j timber than any other part of New j Zealand. There are immense quanti- j ties of timber of the very best quality, i being hill timber, on each side of the i Buller for miles, and there arc very large aroas of coal on each side of the I | river, besides other minerals. And at a time like the present, when both timber and coal are so urgently needed, that piece of line should ho rushed through at the fastest possible rate. To talk of pushing on the North Auckland Main Trunk line with all speed—a lob of it through' miserable pumice land —and_ leave such a large area of coal and timber land locked up for want of a line to convey the coal and timber .so urgently needed to the waiting pubI lie, is _not in the best interest of the Dominion.—Yours, etc., GEORGE LEE. " Templet on, June 7th.