RAILWAY DEVIATION.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2114, 3 April 1914, Page 10

RAILWAY DEVIATION.

MR. COLEMAN PHILLIPS'S ' SCHEME. Mr. Coleman Phillips, of Warrarapaj waited upon tho City Council last- evening, and addressed councillors, .atfviieiiiing that llio East,. Coast, ,1-i'ij'e and tlio proposed"- Kimiitaka deviation should stand together. He • contended that .tlto- deviation: should bo . by, tunnel by . the Waiiiui-o-m.ata, because that would open up Wellington's hinterland, and throw open two million acres or excellent dairying country, ' He also favoured the proposal that the Urongo Oronga .' Stream, shouhl to brought into tho Wai■iwi .reservoir, by niciins of tho gaipp tiinuei, so as to enhiince the. c.ity.'a water suj>piy. ■■ He further pcintccl out that a luagiiific'eut liiko suburb of "0,000 aercs would bii added to- Wellington, it. brnig the hiost maghificent land in tli'o. Duminiou. The line would also toudi 'I poll the reeontly-acquirerl Williams I'arli, and would further enable th.s (<ear sleat Co., and the Wellington Meat Dx;;ort Co. to acquire land, for r(.'sting-paddocks on tho other. side 'of tiio M.l : ; aiid; would etiablo them to re? iiioVti, their works there.

Sir. Phillips said lie- did not believe in leaving the question; to experts. Ho ■ 'Would rather, lie said, havo the opinion ■ t.i twenty level-bcadi-d men. For that reason he had spoken to Mr. J. W. Bard, chairman of. tho Fcatherst-on To-,in JJoanl, and asked would 1m extend the hospitality tif, Foatherslon iij tie 'Wolljnjitou City Councillors. ■■ He ; agfCSgJ to do i>o. s and tlie- speaker Sfir , ■v:.ttftct'the cfiMiiciillbrs- lis : paj! a Visit and >•(•;,i the other side of tho hill. He did not. think the question should bo Iqft to .thjt toivns oi' the AVai.rarapa, as each was squabbling over tho proposed deviation. . In -reply to a question, the speaker said that he thought- the holders of largo areas of land should ptfy for the lailwav. wisi'.-li JVguld'' .grcatlj' enhance: the value, of tho land. The Mayor thanked Mr. L'inllips for his address, and the 'ma'tin- was later referred to tho Finance C'ainmitfco t'tf consider and report. The Mayor hoped tlio committee would KO into the question. They had to ti'.res.t themselves in the large areas adjacent to tToHinptun if they wonted ti>: ■go ahead.

We have, bran asked !o explain (hat' (lie 'Minimy Doyle's poult vy farm," <-,u-V(>rt:--iH* for sale by an aiic'iotienrinj; firm ■in tliirs (;i(v is not the ponjtr.v farm of. Inspector ,'ami's Uo-vle, oi the. City Conn«ii, jlii.il', Im 1 "tl-.ai. of ;.a.:,'i'e.sideii.t. c? many .veins' in ihe .Oharii; Valley, Wliii- ijlivifi® ;i vested ii.ilereti Sis the naiae pi lisa faruii'