RAILWAY MATTERS.
DEPUTATION TO HON K. JI'KENZIE. (By TeJcEraph.-Spocial Correspondent.) Mastcrton, April 1?. The Hon. R. M'Kenzie, accompanied by Mr R B Ross, M.P., reached JlaSterton'from Pongaroa this evening, having driven over the route of the .proposed railway line between Pongaroa 'and Jlas°The' Minister was waited upon by a deputation consisting of tlie .Mayors ot Masterton and Cartcrton, members of the Chamber of Commerce and. Messrs. Hojir, Buchanan, and Ross, M.P s, in the Boroush Council Chambers to-mght. Iho deputation urged upon the Minister the importarne of deviating the Rimutaka railway, for which a survey had been n-o, and of opcniiiß the country to the northeast of Jlaftcrton with a railway Th« Minister replied that the Rimulaka deviation was a national ami not a local undertaking, but he regarded it as a matter for the Alinister for Railways and not. Mmself. In regard to the Pongaroa railway, ho said he could not hold out much 'hope for this, as the country was held in too large areas, and there was very little population. What they wauled was to cut up estates and get more population.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1101, 13 April 1911, Page 4
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185RAILWAY MATTERS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1101, 13 April 1911, Page 4
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