RAILWAY AFFAIRS
; MINISTEE’S BEPLY. 3j ■ 1 ! (Per Press Association.) ! I Wellington, last night. 1 I During the course of a conversation j between a deputation from the Wellington j Chamber of Commerce aDd Sir Joseph I Ward regarding work in connection with I the duplication and straightening of the I Hutt-Petone railway, reference was made I to the construction of a tramway track j along adjoining railway. 1 The Minister said if a tramway was j established it would have to be by the I State, as the Government could net allow I anything to take trqffio away from the railway after spending so much money. Is was pointed oat to the Minister that I the jmunicipai tramway in the city now made it hardly necessary to maintain the Te Aro-Wellingtoa railway service. The Minister remarked on tho singularity of a request to pull up. the rails when, the usual I thing was an appeal to put them down. I j He was glad the matter had been men- j . (m& ;; n . W . i
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1509, 18 July 1905, Page 2
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