TAIERI AND CLYDE RAILWAY.

Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 178, 7 December 1877, Page 6

TAIERI AND CLYDE RAILWAY.

"he following is & precis of the report of ■ the - Select Committee of the Legislative Council on Railways;on the Taieri and Clyde Railway Bill :—>< The line proposed is from Uutram to Clyde, and is 100 miles in length. Its estimated costisLs4o,ooo,and the proposed reserve is 400,000 acres. The Committee recommend the additional re? servation of ,100,000 acres for this railway, : As regards Ofcago the whole interior, basin, of the Taieii,. Maniototo, and Upper CJutha is .practically locked up from profitable settlement by not being made: accessible ■. to the seaports, arid, is at: present- unsaleable, at anything like LI per acre, but that the proposed railway would render the land certainly saleable at a price above that

lirriit, ,while ; the making ' of the reserves r proposed would-,, if taken 1 together with' the other reserves in the Upper Clutha, practically exhaust ■ all; tHe "remaining" agricultural ' land in the Obig-o' portion of the '.Provincial District; The' Committee advise ; that the ' Bill be passed With certain alterations, and think this railway' ; is : a r very desi able public work, which will promote settlement in the country and develop its resources. The Committee strongly approve of constructing' this line by the reservation of Cro^n Lands, if only the reserves' are sufficient in extent to ensure that -no charge for the construction of.the line shall ultimately fall on the ordinary revenue "of the 1 Colony ;"" " ' :