RAILWAY AND HARBOUR DEVELOPMENT
The questions raised by the Chairman of the Harbour Board yesterday in connection with the scheme for extending the Waterloo Quay reclamation work to Kaiwarra are of such far-reaching consequence to tho future of the City and surrounding country- districts that it is regrettable they arc for the ■ time being quite beyond the range of practical All the undertakings embraced Dy' the scheme deserve support; some of them are urgently dcsir'able ( but expenditure of public money in these directions is not at the moment warranted, even if it were available. The most urgent of the works is the provision of'a new railway station and yards for tho ■ City. It has been an urgent need for' so long now that it is not surprising that some members of the Harbour Board appeared to be dismayed at the possibility of its further delay in conjunction with the bigger proposals associated with it. It should not bo assumed, however, that the erection of the new railway station is going to be hung up because of tho largeness of the whola reclamation scheme. Presumably the railway station building will be put in hand as soon as circumstances after the war permit, whereas the reclamation work may be delayed for years, or at least proceed at a very moderate speed. The point made by the Chairman of the Board in introducing the subject yesterday, niimely, that while tho proposals could not now he given practical offect to, they could be fully gone into by tbe different bodies interested and put into workable shape, was a sound one. The adjustment of interests as between the Government, the, City Council, and the Harbour Board may involve, some delicato negotiations, but after the engineers of the three parties have come together and arrived at an understanding as to the inost satisfactory method of about this big Undertaking, the position should be simplified. There is no reason why this portion of the task should not be put in hand as early as possible.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2725, 21 March 1916, Page 4
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338RAILWAY AND HARBOUR DEVELOPMENT Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2725, 21 March 1916, Page 4
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