EAST'COAST RAILWAY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 217, 7 June 1919, Page 10

EAST'COAST RAILWAY

AUCKLAND TO GISBORN'E. ' By Telocraph-Preas Association. Gisborne, Juno 6. Mr. chairman of the. Auckland liailway League, addressed a public meeting at Gisborne oil railway prtblcms. The following-motions wore p.-ssed:— "That this meeting plsdflos. itself to sup ' port tho Auckland Railway League in its endeavours to get through the railway' communication between Am.-liann and Gisborne upon tho distinct understanding that the Auckland League gives its unanimous support to the iinmeriiatc construction of llio Napier-tiisborno portion of the route." "That this netting would urge upon tho Government to tako immcdiato and energetic steps to initinto a vigorous construction policy, so as to link up tho Auckland and ilawko's Bay districts with the GisbOrno district, anil so open up and develop the most important undeveloped portion of Naw Zenland."

Tho Trenthani Dominion Scholarships Art Union closes on J una 30, and a~ big effort is being made to 'soil as' many tickets as possible before the end of the month. Tickets at Is. ?aclr aro on sale all over tho Dominion, and every ticket has iin equal chance of winning over •t'EOOU worth of prizes.

Announcing plans for regiikilliig American 'boxing, the Hew United States Army, Navy, ami Civilian Hosing Control lioaril, under'the presidency of Major-tioneral Leonard Wood, states that -it' will promote international amateur contests. Mr. W. 11. Lamar, solicitor to llio'United Stnlps I'ost OHico Department, staler that letters seized since tho r.rmistice show that Independent Workers, r.f tin? World and other Socialists are plotting a ''bloody revolution and the establishment of a Bolshevist JRepublic."