ANOTHER OTAGO RAILWAY WANTED.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 508, 15 May 1909, Page 3

ANOTHER OTAGO RAILWAY WANTED.

A MASS MEETING. tBT TEIEGIUriI—I'UESi 'ASSOCIATION.) Balclutlin, May 14. _ ; As a result of. the' interest stirred up in railway construction in, Otago, by tho stoppage of • the Lawrence-Roxburgh railway construction works, '-a very : largo meeting was held, at :balcluthu.. to-night, ; to urgo upon tho -Government. • the advisability of building a railway up the Clut'lut Valley, .to Tuapeka ■ Jlouth, and; furthor, if possible. It was pointed out !.hat %> railway, by following this route, would givo railway facilities to a hundred' thousand acres of splendid' agricultural • and • pastoral land in tlio Clutha Valley, and would also provide a Toady outlet' for .the, produce from' that largo 'andfertile district, of-'which Roxburgh is tho centre. It waa nigod :in fovbrtr of tins ailwajr that tbcrowereabsolutely no ,onginoorinff difficulties to cncotintcr,- as in tbo othel route, proposed for, tho railway, in the direction of Roxburgh/for,' by following tho fertile valley of tho; Clutha Hirer,- the ,-liua could reach its goal over comparatively level country, and on an easy grade. It was also stated that tho ferry service'at present on the'Clutha River, is obsalcto ' arfd inconvenient, and that', the': proceeds bf the endowment, now dovbtod to the assistance of the ferry, might be sot against tho cost of tho railway. •' ■ Arrangements wisre iiiado for a strong do. putation to wait upon tlie'moiuber of tha Cabinet at- the wiuter show ,at Dunedin shortly, jn connection with tho proposod railway, and a .league, thoroughly representative of, the district...and with tho Mayor of - Ba|clutha las president, was formed' to ur-:o upon residents and tio Government necessity of a-.raibvay i»