NEW RAILWAY STATION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 844, 16 June 1910, Page 3

NEW RAILWAY STATION.

SITE NOT YET SELECTED. MATTER TO BE EXPEDITED. Whilst tho Prime Minister (Sir Josoph Ward) and members of the City Council were conferring yesterday with regard to the proposed alterations in connection with the Parliament Grounds the question of the site for the new railway station was incidentally raised. The Mayor (Mr. Wilford) said in this regard that tho council had to look ahead in the matter of tramway communication. If the new railway station were, for instance, to bo erected in the vicinity of Bunny Street it would be necessary for the council to extend a line to it. It was just possible that the council might require to ask the Government to allow for a curve down one' of the side streets. Or again, if the station were to bo built in another place—say the vicinity of the Waterloo Quay reclamation—a slice might be needed off another corner of Government property. The council must consider the question of a quick and efficient tram service to the new station where.ver it was situated. Sir Joseph (in reply) said that the council could depend upon it that unless any such request was unreasonable the Government would be only too glad to assist. Mr. Wilford: Our engineer suggests that when you decide to commence the erection of the station you should let him know the exact site so that in connection with the laying or reconstruction of any tram line the council would not be put to any needless expense. Si\ Joseph (in reply) said that he could not.at iho moment decide when the Government would go on with the erection of the station. That would depend on circnmdancps naturally beyond his immediate control in addition to which the Hiitt duplication works must bo completed before the railway yards could be readjusted, because they were part and parcel of the new scheme. He would, however, promise this: Ho.would ask the Minister for Railways to go into the whole question from his Department's point of view at an early dale with a view to indicating on a plan where the station would be irrespective of design. Mr. Morton would then be advised as to the approximate site as soon as possible. In reply to an interjection by a councillor Sir Joseph laughably remarked: Perhaps you think wo are going to put tho station in the vicinity of To \ro?