The Manawath Gorge Line

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 3, 19 June 1886, Page 3

The Manawath Gorge Line

Tkewpl^^f the: Minister «f rPtiblic "Work* to asked on W«»l---nesday^ Wfi^/tbe-^»m|iletioh of the lfanawatu ; Gi»rge/Ruilway to conhoct the Nanie^faif a*PU» ''with s -th«;"- W^at <3oMi and' W^Uiujjjton liuesy wa» by mo jneana .jfta *|ati» factory one. ?In effect. U*tao^ated- -to: this, that the Ku will t»kfl|i«re 4lvt% two y«ara to complete, aj^lhat it ie ; not intended, 4»ut«f the loatßjwbioh is *o cover works ibr -tiuitpeitwly^ to provide a sum sufficient tp ic^piplete it; * Mr Richardf son may b^Jtb^eto show whythe line wut necessarilj* take more than two yexn to compete, biit 'we very much doubt it, and jwe »m quite ; o9nfi4ont that if ite Hso^wtruction was ' in the hands, «ay,. off 4b.e; Wellington-Mana-EaUway Company, traffic would Iw estabUahedover it ia a much shorter: itime. A yearjOC; two ago a promise was, we believe, Ifanawatu (|»ißpany that the Gorge line should hovgabmpfeted simttltane«usly with, the completion of the com-; pany'» line' from Weliingtori"tb^l^ngourn, w» that fl^ttgii^commumeai&bn with Xapier might at once be estab^ lithed. 'Mow' it appears -mlore than probable that tiler Wellington' to Longburn Une wiUMitt Operation ir bef ore a single •od4i i! liurned on the'Gdrgje line. Of <?Q*rA» Captain Russell Is responsible for Me year's dela^ iii' thd ; prosecution <S*^is litter work, the Ministry v uMoubiedly to blame <or not, now tt>a^liaa^inopportunijiy of doing «o, showing : : aiiy y deaire to make up for lost time, and endeavouring to hurry on the 'completioii of tias most necessary work.. In the whole schedule of proposed railways, there is not another line which is at, all likely to ■ yield- such large and. immediate retum^directly and indirectly, as the Manawatu Gorge line when once it is completed. .-j-Poat.