Waitepeka Deviation.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 51, 1 July 1875, Page 5

Waitepeka Deviation.

The following documents have been handed to us for publication by Mr Thomson, M.H.R.:--

■" Public Works Office, " Wellinton, 18th June, 1575. "J. W, Thomson, Esq., M.H.R. " Sir,-— With regard to my letter of sth April, I have now the honor to enclose a copy of the report which has 1 beenfurnished by the Engineer-in-Chief relative, to the deviation of a portion of the Mataura to Clutha Railway proposed by thesettlers in the Waitepeka valley and its neighborhood, and to inform you that the .Government have decided to adopt the, Jine originally surveyed.— l have the tionps to be, <fee., (Signed) Ed^aed Kichar^dsqn. "To the Hon, Minister for Public "Works.

** Deviation near Balclutha of Cluth% to Mataura Railway — Having' yisited ; the distriot in which, this deviation of the Clutha to Mataura line is proposed, I leg to report that in my opinion th:} line selected . by Mr brunton is the' better of the two-^-yiz., that by w.ay pf the Four-mile Greek.; ."...:

Waitepeka valleys tbioughi which the petitioners wish the line to! be taken, is certainly a richer and better settled valley than the pth^indi^^ branch line only were.proposed it^idpj be the better line.; A-X' A-.AA'XA:'AAAAy :- *«?tf*.the line is; taken tby'iway AM iFo^r-mUe.Creekjtbe^ will^haye to r: . cart;-; :tHeips^|uce^'^ibl ; miles * farther; ;; thai -^Ugfeh^r^ &ss ?-: hand, y^sS^so^^m

smith of Clinton willliave to p^asg oW "' more than a mile less of railways wiih better gradients. " "In. effect if the Waitepeka deviation is adopted, it will he equivalent to laying a tax of from 4d to 6d a ton <>n all traffic between Dunedin and the south, in order to save a charge of Is &i per ton for cartage on tne very much smaller business of the Waitepeka vallej\ - (Signed) John Carruthers. 17th June, 1875.