RAILWAY WORKS.
] - !£Fea Press AssocfaffiotJ.) I Wellington, last night, j A large deputation representing the | Nelson province waited on the Premier I this morning to point out the urgent I necessity of cxtondiDg the railway line as I far as Hope, when it would top the coach I road to Buller, Mr Seddon said the East Coast Nelson connection had been approved by Parliament, and had not the contractor failed Nelson by would have had a connection with Christchurch. ' The grounds for making the connection had been strengthened by time, by reason of the growing demands for land, timber, and coal. Mr Seddon was of opinion that we would eventually have to look to the j Nelson'district for land for settlement. He I w»b not prepared to- ask the colony to bor- j row more than a million a year, but ho I agreed with the necessity of extending this I line to a paying point, and was prepared 1 to press that view upon members. j
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1504, 12 July 1905, Page 2
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