Railway Matters.
FUNDS WANT HI.) FOR NECESSARY WORKS.
P#v.v« /<>/.) llav. kka, This day. In ail interview respecting the connection of the Taranaki and Auckland railways by a light line the Minister for Public Works said the more proper term was a narrow-guage line. Their own rarKariyys were really light lines. He woulir have to ascertain whether they were adapted to the country between the two districts. The proposal to connect Opunake was impossible owing to the cost of changing goods from train to train being too much. Nothing had been d>. cid< d as to the Gisborne Rotorua line. Replying to a request for better station accommodation, the Minister said this touched a problem which was meeting the Government every week. The settlement of the country and the advance of trade had increased at such a rate during the past year that the Railway Department was at its wit's end to overtake the demand for rolling stock and more ample goo Is accommodation. It was here again the question of money, and Government would have to appeal to Parliament t'uring next session for a further grant.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 374, 16 July 1897, Page 3
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186Railway Matters. Hastings Standard, Issue 374, 16 July 1897, Page 3
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