HOPE FROM THE "SURPLUS."
WELLINGTON'S NEW RAILWAY STATION. The Wellington Technical School Board lias derided to.act as a committee of (ho whole in extending its oDicinl co-operation to the City Council in connection with its agitation for an up-to-date railway station at Wellington, Referring to the matter at the board's meeting last , , J ; I '-„ Lllli0 suggested that (ho board should call upon the Government to make, a start uitli a central station, ](e noticed that the Prune Minister had just announced a surplus of JiSOO.OOO, "Where is it?" queried Mr. J. G. W Aitkeu. "When 1 go down to Dimedin," commented tlie chairman of the board (Mr. D. Robertson), "and see the grand palaco ot a station they have got down (here, it makes me feel wild to think of our ov.-n Jittle station here. It's our own fault. We ought to keep oil asking and asking till wo get what we want." Mr. D. M'Laren hoped that nobody would press for station right in tlie heart of tho city, lie felt suro that if the.y went to work in a unanimous spirit the Government would bo impressed with tho fact that tliey bad a good case.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1425, 27 April 1912, Page 4
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197HOPE FROM THE "SURPLUS." Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1425, 27 April 1912, Page 4
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