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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 20, 19 October 1920, Page 7

At the meeting of the Oroua County Council' the question of the proposed deviation of We Main Trunk railway Levin to MnTton was brought up, and d ■ suggestion was made that the Govern- ; ment was likely to adopt th« scheme at, ( it had recently ncatiired 42 ncres of land ) in the vicinity'of Marten. In the course 5 of discussion it was pointed out that the deviation would' only shorten.., the distance -tance bv some seventeen miles, and It • was hardly likely that the Department • would spend a sum of £200,000 on a • piece oTTine which would practically run ■ parallel with the one in existence, and ■ which would cut out palmerston North, • where it had been decided to erect n new station with nil theronyenlences fo« transhipment of goode. It would not benefit the taxpay«rs, hut only a few tourists, and a few Persons who had property along the line. One councillor remarked that they need not worry themselves, as_the agitate™ for the change had no hope of cettlns the scheme through. Another msmber said there i would bo some B<m6e in spending the . money Th extending railways to dlstriots ; where they were required, bvl't thora was no warrant for spending money on tl;c ■ devfStTon proposed. Re said that W . knew that there had been n lot of wirepuTtfhp, going on amongst some of the 1 big property holders "interested. A councillor hazarded the opinion that the whole matter had cropped up in order fojircvent Palmerston North getting a nevTrailway station. It was eventually decided to leave the matter in the hands of the Chambers of Commerce and the Fanners' Dnlon if protest were necoe--1 earr.