GISBORNE TO NAPIER.
DETAILED SURVEY URGED. MINISTER'S FAVORABLE REPLY [Speoiatj to “Times.”] WELLINGTON, September 1.. When Mr. A. L. D. Fraser was in AVniroa recently, he was asked to bring under the .notice of the Go rernment the desirability of their taking steps towards the construction of a, railway between Napier and Gisborne. To-day Mri Fraser, in company with the Hon. J, Carroll, waited on tiie lion. Mr. lla 11-Jones in connection with the matter. They urged that a detailed survey should bo'made. The. Minister expressed his appreciation of the necessity for the work, anti .acknowledged that the completion of a detailed survey was paramount. He expressed the opinion that much of the delay in the past construction of soveral ol our railways was attributable to the absence of a comprehensive and detailed survey. With regard to the N apier-Gisborne line survey, the work, lie said, would he takert m hand this summer and pushed on.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2285, 2 September 1908, Page 2
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156GISBORNE TO NAPIER. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2285, 2 September 1908, Page 2
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