EAST MALVERN.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1836, 10 January 1880, Page 3

EAST MALVERN.

Mr D. McMillan, member of the Belwyn County Council, and Mr J. A. Mcllraitb, chairman of the Eas’; Malvern Road Board, were interviewed on Thursday by a deputation from Sheffield, consisting of Dr. Meadows, Messrs Lily and Brown, to ask those gentlemen to urge upon the Government the advisability of bringing the Oxford and Tomuka railway through Sheffield. Mr Mcllraitb, in reply, said that he was pleased to see that the people of Sheffield and the vicinity had taken this matter in hand, as the Selwyn, Rakaia, and Lake Coleridge districts had oven gone so far as to ask that a Royal Commission might be appointed to settle upon a route more beneficial than the one at present proposed. If a public meeting were called, he should be most happy to do all that lay in his power to further the movement, but being directly interested in the route through the Malvern Hills, he did not wish to take a too prominent part in the furtherance of their object. But he could then tell them what had been done by gentlemen in Ohri-tch”roh and by the residents on the south side of the Malvern Hills. Mr McMillan s aled that the County Council had written to the Government some months ago, requesting to be informed as to the proposed route from the Waimakariri hirdge, but as yet they hod received no definite reply. His idea was that if the West C ast line was decided upon so as to cross the bridge, the curve from the main line must of necessity take place on the Racecourse Hill road, somewhere near to the old gravel pit. He would suggest, as the Hon. J. Hall would be in the district at the end of the month, that he bo written to and asked to attend a public moating at Sheffield to hear what the inhabitants of Sheffield had to Buy in the matter. After passing a vote of thanks to Mr Mcllraitb and Mr McMillan, the deputation retired.