DEVIATION SCHEME
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Little Hope of Goverhment Aceeptance
1 (By - Telegraph-
• WANGANUI, Last Night. • Tbepe:appears to.be little hope, of theGovernment 's taking np the , Draffia scheme of a iailway deviation along the co'ast . f roin • Turakina to • Kai Iwi. The Minister of Raihvays ■ (Hon. D. G. Sulli--van) visited,. Wanganui- on- Saturday ' and in a statement to the . Press, said that without consulting his colleagues ' he thought he could say thcre was little chance of tho sc'heme being carried out. Mr. Dfaffin 's proposar provides for the cesSation.of work on the improvemeht of the grade between .Turakina and Okoia, where the ' Government is spending £500,000, and the constructior. of a line along the coastal flats, thereby . putting Wanganui on the main ilne, •cutting cut the -Okoia and" Brunswick" grades: on cither. side.'bf Aramoho, and reducing the presebt rail distahce be--tween Turakina- and Kai Iwi from 40.' to 20 'miles. The scheme is supported ; '■by -the Chambers of Commerce in Tara- . nakL
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 38, 8 November 1937, Page 3
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