Midland Railway.
By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. - Wellington, last night. At, this morning’s meeting of the Midland Railway Commission, Mr Back announced that he had resigned his seat 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, he had deemed it necessary to send in his resignation.
■ Mr Dalston, formerly general-manager of the Midland Railway Company, produced two returns,'; showing sums which had reached tho Receiver and Company from sales of land granted to the Company by the, Crown. The total was .£312,125 for 375,6924- acres, but the area remaining unsold totalled 8,0634 acres, in Westland and Canterbury districts. The Commission will- sit again tomorrow to receive further returns prepared by the Public Works and Railways Departments, and will leave on Wednesday for Nelson, whence they will proceed ..to make an inspection of the BelgraveJVlotupike section of the Railway.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 36, 12 February 1901, Page 3
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