MINISTER FOR RAILWAYS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 440, 24 February 1909, Page 8

MINISTER FOR RAILWAYS.

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'ti, ir- •i. > Dunedin, February 23. l( !v e , 1:Ilms tor. for Railways (the Hon. J. A. Millar) was occupied the whole: of the moriimg receiymg deputations. .: He inspected the Hillside workshops this -afternoon, and attended a.. social,to. Mr;. Allen, la e member for Chalmers, to-night. -

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Ti, • , r Dunedln, February 23. The Minister for Railways has a. considerable amount, of travelling- and'hard work front of : him. On Monday he leaves for the south, in-.company- with'Mr' ! fc ai ' n o'n°w a ? ln |P ec t io ? <?f'the Southland h« rw iv S dn lesdtty;he1 esd tty;he will officially open the Gore-\Vaikaka - railway, going on to e "'l , r i i h6 - after ? 00n ' Thursday and I>idav will be. spent inspecting tho Lake a ", d - in '' an examination of Kingsjon-Lurasden - railway- section and on Saturday, week Mr. Millar returns to Dunedm. On Mondayj March 8, ho leaves for Oamaru by.the first-express, and will remam there, .receiving deputations,- etc., till the arrival, of the second express, then going on to Tima.ru On the following da/ he -reaches Chnstchurcli.. The Minister, in con-' tinuation . of his inspection of, tho. South m ?io ( Vay i L S| leave s Christcburch on ? ?r° i A West Coast, and will call a ■halt ft t, tha Otira .tunnel; Greymouth, Hokihk;V ostport, Nelson, and;Picton will be visited, and after tlireo. weeks' overland travelling, a; steamer will be ,taken at' the I last-named . port for Wellington,' which has to bo reached by March 20.