THE DISTRICT'S GRIEVANCE
WAIRARAPA INCLINE,
Every district cherishes its grievance or grievances. The Wairarapa peomVhavc found it possible to reduce their grievances to one—the Rimutaka Incline. The lack of rail and road communication with Wellington by a more easy route is one of the greatest drawbacks that the district could suffer, and this it has suffered almost since it was founded. Transport of goods and passengers over this impossible mountain track into Wellington is slow and costly. The Wairarapa people all maintain that the line over the Rimutaka does not even pay the Railway Department, The freight from tipper Hutt to Fcatherston is six times as much as it should be. But on the other hand it. is found that wearing-parts of the railway rolling stock- on this length of line last only one-quarter of the time that similar parts wear on other lines of the railway system. The deviation of this line to some flat or less mountainous route has been one of the demands of the Wairaraim people for many years, and the demand is sure to. be rcnowed'-as soon as normal conditions return.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 71, 17 December 1917, Page 18
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186THE DISTRICT'S GRIEVANCE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 71, 17 December 1917, Page 18
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