PARLIAMENTARY

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 39, 10 September 1885, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY

WHOLESALE BETBENOHMENT, HOUSE OF BSPBESENTATIvES [PBB UKITBD 2BBBS ASBOCIATIOir.j WELUJfOTOK, Tbi« D»y. In the House lastmght Captain Bussell • moved that thePubUc WoTksjsxpenditure j be reduced by £500,000. Mr Garrick thought, the amendment Was worth considering. He said "there would be no successful Government until the East and West, Coast .Eiilwaf irai constructed. He strongly objected to Centralism. ■-■■■• -^ Sir J. Yogel said the Government would discuss the question not as a party one. They were to take half a million off the* railway estimates. The meaning was that the following amounts were at stake :— Huntley brahchv £ll,{>00; Helensvillsy £20,000 ; Hamilton-Granamstown, £15,---000; Main trunk line, £65,000; East and West Coast Baflway, £140,000; Napier^ Woodville, £75,000 ; Picton-wnithwards, £8,000 ; Otago, £70,000 ; Waimea and Switzers, £10,000 ; additional open lines/ £30,000; and by stopping works in the shops they would -be able to knock 'off £30,000 in rolling stock. Captain Eusaell denied that he ha* ? wished a cessation of public works tiuk year. ■• :■; ■'-• •'- v " r: : '-■%[ -■■'■--'v. Major Atkinson, referring to the East and West Coast Baflway; said he had always held that this railway was part of tne trunk lines of th» colony, but he would ask, were they justified: in handing ever £380,000 for underwriting in connection with this line? He_eohsmexed. if they were to enter into Meigg'B scheme it would result in the bankruptcy of t&e colony. ; The House then rose. " -« i^ivrM