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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1015, 7 October 1903, Page 1

The Gisborne-Rotorua line, which would open up some of the best country in the world, and make a way for ten thousand settlers, is still a dream, says the Auckland Herald. This is because the colony is too poor for the Government to undertake such profitable and ur-gently-needed works—when they are in the North Island. But the colony is never too poor, times never too hard, money never too tight, for the South Island to call in vain for a few hundred thousand pounds. The state of affairs is so flagrant that even the North Island .is awakening to the injustice of it. and beginning perceive that Mr Seddon's Alpha and Omega have a very Grecian signification. But surely the most flagrant act of sectional favouritism and maladministration is this wasting of £109,250 upon a Southland’ estate, at a time when railway construction and road-making and bridge-building in the North are being still further reduced owing to lack of funds, and when great districts in the North Island are almost at a standstill for lack of the most ordinary transit facilities. . ~