MIDLAND RAILWAY COMMISSION.
(per press association.)
Wellington, February 12.
At this morning’s meeting of the Midland Railway Commission, Mr Back announced that ho had resigned his scat on the Commission. He explained that his leave of absence from Tasmania expired during the present month, and as he found that the Commission would be sitting in March and part of April ho had deemed it necessary to send in his resignation. Mr Dalston, formerly general manager of the Midland Company, produced two returns showing the sums which had reached the receiver and the company from the sales of land granted to the Company by the Grown. The total amount was £312,125 for 375,692! acres. The area remaining unsold totalled 8,0631 ac.es in the Westland Canterbury Districts.
The Commission will sit to-morrow to receive further returns prepared by the Public Works and Railway Departments, and will leave on Wednesday for Nelson, whence they will proceed to make an in spection of the Belgrovo-Motupiko section of railway.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 13 February 1901, Page 3
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164MIDLAND RAILWAY COMMISSION. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 13 February 1901, Page 3
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