PROJECTED RAILWAYS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 October 1924, Page 4

PROJECTED RAILWAYS.

SOUTH ISLAND MAIN TRUNK. ITS COMPLETION STRESSED. (by TELEGRAPH —PRESS- ASSOCIATION. BLENHEIM, Oct. 23. The commissioners who are to report on the New Zealand railway system (Sir Sani lay and Sir Vincent Raven) arrived from Wellington to-day, accompanied by Mr. W. J. Girling, M.P., McVilly (general manager of railways), Mr. F. W. Furkei't (en-gmeer-m-ehief of the Public Works Department) and the heads of the various railway branches, the party, with secretaries and officials, numbering seventeen. Mr. Girling introduced a deputation from the Marlborough Progress League, who shortly represented the league’s case for the completion of the South Island Main Trunk railway (Picton to Bluff). The commissioners appeared much impiessed with the league’s case, and seemed to appreciate the necessity for completing the line, so as to give Marl borough an adequate outlet for its : primary productions, and the advisableness of filling the gap from the Si"- nal + r nfc ° f View - They promised to give the case careful consideration, nf iw PreSSed a PP re ciation of the force of the arguments used. They appeared of dpmidn-that-the merits of the case for-completion of the line' it was only a matter The commissioners aro now on the ™.v to Christchurch via Kaikoura.