THE EAST COAST RAILWAY

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2282, 29 August 1908, Page 2

THE EAST COAST RAILWAY

AUCKLAND PRESS COMMENT.

(Special to “Times.”)

AUCKLAND, Aug. 28.

The “Star”, in an editorial, regrets the attitude of Southern manners in introducing petty parochialisms and the agitation of north versus south purely, it considers, with the hope of having a stronger hold on constituents at the coining election. The “Star” says: “It is impossible to deny that the proposed East Coast Railway promises to do more for the Dominion as a whole than any other single line on which so little has been yet spent. It is because the district to be served by the north Auckland and East Coast line when properly developed will form 60 immensely valuable an asset for the whole country that we regard their projects as deserving of public and political support. We trust that the recent ebullition of parochial jealousy is only accidental and temporary, and we hope that our representatives will continue t 0 advocate the cl iinis of North Auckland and . East Coast line with the full conviction that they are thereby promoting the best interests of the Dominion as a whole.”

“Has that eternal bickering of north versus south come into force again?” was the “Herald” comment. After deiling exhaustively with the claims of the North Island the morning paper says “The East Coast line is having its greed glutted at the fanciful rate of one mile of railway construction per annum.”