THE WELLINGTON-FIXTON RAILWAY.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1879, 2 March 1880, Page 3

THE WELLINGTON-FIXTON RAILWAY.

[By Tblboeaph.] WELLINGTON, March 1. In compliance with a petition signed by 1620 persona, a public meeting was held in the Theatre Boyal re Wellington and Foxton railway. The hall was crowded, and the Mayor occupied the chair. The following resolutions, moved by influential citizens, were carried :

“ 1. That this meeting is of opinion that the rapid completion of the Wellington and JToxton railway is of vital importance to the colony; not only as a means of opening up communication between the city and harbor of Wellington and settlements on the West Coast, and of bringing into possible use large tracts of fertile land available for settlement, but also because it would tend materially to lessen the difficulty of settling questions now open between Government and the Native population. *' 3. That this meeting of citizens of Wellington and inhabitants of surrounding districts believes that the construction of the West Coast railway will materially add to the progress of the city and its districts, by extendcg facilities for commerce, and affording scope for locating the rapidly increasing popuation. . . “3. That this meeting recognises the difficulty arising from the limited appropriation with which Government have to contend in any attempt to hasten the progress of works now being carried on, hut hopes that a liberal interpretation of the charges placed against the vote for the West Coast railway will enable them to devote the amount set apart for rolling-stock and bridges to the employment of more labor, or to call for tenders for a portion of the line between Wellington and where the works are commenced. “ 4. That this meeting, believing that the West Coast railway would command a largo goods and passenger traffic, and yield handsome returns against the interest of cost of its construction, claim that, to ensure its being made at onoe, its coat should be taken out of the recently raised loan. At the same time this meeting submits that the attention of Government be called to what has already been suggested by a former Government and partly acquired, as a means of reoouping_ the outlay, of the proceeds of the sale of reclaimed

land in this city, and land between the Manawatu and Waikanae. “ 5. That members of the General Assembly for Provincial Districts of Wellington be requested to support in their places in Parliament the rapid prosecution of the work of the West Coast railway. “6. That the following gentlemen be ap. pointed a deputation to wait on Government with the resolutions passed at the meeting, and to support them, viz : —‘ The Chairman of this meeting, the movers and seconders of resolutions, and the members of the General Assembly for the district.’ ”