PUKERUA'S REQUIREMENTS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 August 1910, Page 3

PUKERUA'S REQUIREMENTS.

( INVISIBLE TO THE HON. MR MILLAR. In the House of Representatives this week, Mr Field, M.P., asked to Minister for .Railways, whether he wouldi have a siding constructed it. the Pukerna Railway Station !nr lip', use of settlers, both Native and European, residing in that 'oeih'.v who have no access liy road : -iini wlro were, from W;|iit of ;i siding, prevented from obtaining th ,, 'r tin lier and other heavy ma*:cnrl, and firoin sending away their stock, wool, and other produce, except :-t great cost and inconvenieii.'jf l The Minister for Railways replied as 'follow s : "My investigati-ms inl, this matter indicate thai; the:?. 1no ro;|d access to the Puker m Unl way Station, nor has there, up l.i the present time, been any indication of business that would ,j istii'y the Department in incurring (he (x----peuditure necessary to provi lo a siding at Pukerna. During tli; •.viiolc of the regime of the Manawatu (.Ympany only one .settler in the Cisi'-n-: sent a few hales of wool by rail Iron Pukerna, ;L tul his product wis lifted by special arrangement at '■'luveuient times by lialla.sl train. Miirlar arrangement was made ly '.lie Government during the last wool season, but on completion f the / ;•- rangement the Railway Dep., -tuieiil was advised tiiat no wool would be forthcoming. It appears e-.'idein that the business likely to jirse f I'mkorno would be extremely .•mail, and, in the circuuist; lues, -..here is no pressing necessity for nc i.v na considerable expenditure in providing facilities that are ".>t essential to the business, more especially in view of the heavy "xp-.Mi.li-ture that must, be in-mred 'l.i i.ug the ciirrnet year in provi (Ling facilities that are urgently re<| H'v l to meet the demands of the iiaMiv in various parts of the dominion.''