THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.
SPEEDIER CONSTRUCTION WANTED. Press Association. WELLINGTON, September 9. Sir Joseph Ward was waited on by a Nelson deputation to-day with a request that the Midland railway be authorised to Hope Junction, and that speedier progress be mado with the line at present authorised. The Premier said there were seventeen lines on tho authorisation list. To grant tho deputation’s request would mean that the claims of the other sixteen lines would be pressed. As a matter of public policy it was desirable to first complete the North Island trunk line. When was finished there would be £B-50,000 available for other railways. Within the means at its .disposal the Government would make provision for lines already authorised. Ho could not promise any more.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2181, 10 September 1907, Page 3
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124THE MIDLAND RAILWAY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2181, 10 September 1907, Page 3
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