Public Works

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 153, 5 June 1886, Page 2

Public Works

A meeting of Wellington and Hawkes Bay members was held on Wednesday last to consider the railway proposals. It was moved by Mr Macabthur, and seconded by Dr Newman, " That no money be allocated for new railways out of the proposed loan of £1,500, 000; that the energies of the Government should rather be devoted to oarrying on all railways already begun to a paying point, and that sufficient money be allocated out of the loan to complete the connection by the # Gorge between Napier and Wellington." Moved by Mr Wilson, and seconded by Mr Buchanan, " That the Government be urged to make some provision out of the proposed loan for necessary road works." The above resolutions were carried unanimously. The Wellington and Napier members, not unnaturally, object that the sum allocated for the Woodville-Palmer-ston line is insufficient to complete it and establish through communication. It will be a most serious matter to postpone this for upwards of 2 years. There is no connecting line in the colony likely to yield more satisfactory results when completed, than this Gorge line, but the expenditure will remain absolutely unproductive until the West and East Coast Railway systems are. connected. So says the Post, and eveiy person who has had opportunities of judging of the enormous traffic which will follow when the connection is made, must endorse this opinion.