The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1832. RAILWAY ROUTE.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 5, 1 July 1882, Page 2

The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1832. RAILWAY ROUTE.

Among the many cJjifliaPijg" o|^Dioro expressed by intajfesten jourftalist's, politician.*, and others #Ko">»«n have, at the brfst, but 8 superficial knowt&Agwf the qtrestion, we bare not yet met one > -thiat .satisfactorily solves itke^queMtioa of the best route to be followed to affect a junction with the Auckland Ila'lway line. Yet we venture to assert that we can offer a few very sound reasons why the town of'Feilding 1 should be a point of departure, in preference to any other place on the Patea-.Manawotu line. We do not propose, in the limits of this article, to occupy much si. ace in pointing 1 out the many advantages the Man^hestjer.jßJoek-ie happy in po.-sess-I'nff^'bufc we> will endeavour -to show that the revenue which can be positively relied on, would more than justify the Government in making such a select on from the large supply of timber that would be at once available for a profitable market. Timber that is Qo\v, d^foyeij. when tbeJaod is^oeing" ''bleared, lj w^uld' oe turned into a money value, which would certainly be expended in improvements on the land, presumingtlkat;'tW*ra»l*vay ifn* Was j titnen 4 by' way of the Kimbolton Road to Cheltenham and Kiwitea. As soon as the third mile was completed it would be worked at a'*nrofit, ; ahj 'every' succeeding mile would add to the receipts. From the beginning the project would be »«uecp!». » Au\Kiwitea, wistrea|l^»te one sawmill dnly fc>ein£ atVoric^tfeeVe* would be probably from four to five within a month of the line being surveyed. 'I he engineering., difficulties are remarkably few, and such only os can be overcome at a comparatively trifling cost. When the frozen meat jjfcacfeSs '^Tnfl)| <|r.ablisiied, Jhise ,in-| land places must, from their position and nature of the soil, becouie the great cattle, producing centres of the Westf Coas.fv and th« kao\*hle%e that a read\ r and che;ip means of transit was being provided, would encourage new settlers to take up land, and give a further impetus to those who have already made their homes there. There is p'enty of land, cheap and good, available f< r smull capitalists, who are, after all, the best class of settlers to open up a new couutry, who vill be able to see in the near future a sure and profitable return for their labor -ajpd njpaj'y. g j^or «JQ| or^ (»0 milet *fand w&'uld^be opened "up by this route being adopted, which would immediately [irove a source of ,^,reaj. ?ew*!eu.e/;fiot «>iiijy^ojtlJe, raik 'vfay, but to the country at large, from the large population that would immediately begin to gather, forming new towns and villages, where There is nothing at present but the magnificent totara forest — a home for wild oottlei ; We ; Wve no 'dbubt : that all' this, and more, is known to persons hij:h. I ,in i au^hori.tyi (and we, hope that certain information which we possess as to the probability of this route being, selected, may turn put to be ( ; correct. If so, we can with safety assert that a future of prosperity i.s •in,store for Feildirig and its •district-' .•'