THE PRIME MINISTER.
A NAPIER DEPUTATION. RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION. (Bl- IEUiGriAPU—riIESS ASSOCIATION.) Napier, March 30. Tlio Primo Minister passed through hero to-day 011 his way to elluigton, and received a deputation of members of the Napier Chfiiiibor of Commerce and leading business men, who asked that.during tho uoxfc session of Parliament a sum of monoy should bo placed on the Estimates for the purposo of having a survey completed, ancl tho best'-available route selected for a railway between Napier aud Gisborno, with estimates of tho jirobablo cost of , tho lino, and that in tho following session whon tlio question of • • now : railway works was ■ being dealt with bv the Government. tho claims of the East Coast should receive favourable consideration. Tlio Primo Minister, in reply, said tho request of tho-deputation for the completion of tho survey .was reasonable, and ;would receive every consideration; \\itn regard to now railways or for the extension of oxisting lines whon practicable, ho cquld piiJy say the Government had givpn no plcdgo with, regard to any of these, and. could giyo none now. They would be guided entirely by what they thought was\in .the ..best interests of tho settlors, irrespective of political consideration, and every district in tlio Dominion would bo treated , as fairly as possiblo. '
' A VISIT TO GISBORNI3. v (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS- ASSOCIATION.) Gisbornsj March 30. Tho Premier oalled' at Gisborno yesterday on his way , South., Ho was .mot J'-nd. welcomed by. a nunibor of prominent citizens. Sir Joseph Ward'stated .that lie would probably, return in May; and would, if possible,' go Over tho surveyed Gisboriie-Rotorua railway routo. ' ' '. " .. FUTURE MOVEMENTS. '(BY TEL2GHAPH—SPECIAL COIIRESI>ONDENT.V,: ' Napier, March 30. Sir Joseph -Ward, who. .through Napier to-day; intends, after .visiting. lington, to proceed on ,to Duncdin; from there he will probably'set out oil a_tour' or Otago Central; accompanied Hon. 11. M'Nabgi .; ...■; .' ,
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 160, 31 March 1908, Page 7
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302THE PRIME MINISTER. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 160, 31 March 1908, Page 7
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