The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 January 1911, Page 2

The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, '11. OUR. DISTRICT'S ADVANTAGES. A FORESHADOWING of tllO duplication of the main railroad through Ilorowihenua and Manawatu Counties, made by the present Minister for Railways in the course of a recent interview with a New Zealand Times representative, should serves to keep in good heart all the .settlers and townspeople a lung this fertile coast. Quite apart from its wonderful fecundity and its unexcelled rainfall, tihe coastline from Waikanae to Shannon, and even further northward, has an .unparalleled advantage by reason of its contiguity to the city of Wellington and its insatiable markets. Those faint-hearted ones amongst us who have failed to realise the importance to this district of these advantages should be helped to a better understanding of the j district's possibilities by the Minister's latest pronouncement. In essence it amounts to a declaration of liis considered judgment that the great valley of the Wairarapa will share to send the great bulk of its produce by way of the sea coast; in other words, that the R.iinutaka incline is so steep, and consequently I .so expensive to work, that all the H.iwire's Bay and the northern Wellington Provincial (traffic, must be brought I<> tho <:ity via. the Manawatu. line. Exactly what degree of benefit this state of affairs will give to lilie settlers of Shannon, Levin and Otaki it would be hard to overestimate, seeing that the products of these parts will be auctioned in the open markets of the future great City of Wellington on equal terms with products that will have had to pay haulage rates over double or treble these distances. There can be only one of two final developments: either this district will become the exclusive milk and vegetable supplier of the. New Zealand capital mid its environs, or that it will be able to compete against the more-distant localities on exception- | ally favourable a.nd money-yielding terms. There are many good reasons, apart from those above enumerated, why Horowhenua County must surely become one of the most prosperous pastoral centres-of New Zealand, even if it -should fail to

develop tho matnifncturing poseibili- ■ ties with which, it is apparently endowed. That- aspect of our county s case can ho allowed to rest for the nonce; this owny is directed more especially to thr.oKiorfc-of crystallising local attention on the fact that competent and quite impartial outssrl<?rs nro of important hear- ; n n-,ipon onr fntnrc proercw- which 10-al ' critic nro apt to overlook. When the Ind. crndo o,tt of Wellincton Imr-oinps slTnio;l,^nwl—as the fnr Pailwa.ys intends it s ] in ll hr~ ; nul t]ie "rcat volume of 'the inlnmi milwny traffio rolls nlong mn ~„„„!,. fl,r i-.n-paspd traffic and i»roa.tor f-rnvolliMjr r : i"ilities will send tin's iionudiiiT nlons ilic road to Wo nro faced in that dirrctirin alrendv: I»nt at pre50t1f |i, o forwrri rt-iovcment is retarded IIM-o-n-h cf local rp-n-ir-s. Tlint. is a drawImck hv nil districts nv , ril, '" Ttn' ,f^l lv developed: |i, p r nri>-'T- l->s v> th" persistent nin->l!'"iM'^ l r,f fi" tt-toVv fis n whole (n f! t! ,|.,c,l-c; „...■,,•!";! to their hands: p nr (q.,1,,,,,1. -ill things." 1.,-.lr «f nnsh. At nycqon| fl r V n heavier inT.,l .„(! ../iqpTivJ'.ilUiis flian Flo Ttinnv ri-tiV-o".=•. t"'va nripii'r.'i.s \t-\ :.. s : Ivit this tl''-:i nlso lin s -. the pnniiioiis"fiM" nnb vei' T lits of nerffir.j- f .ii.,,0f0 njiri ~,i rr ,r,nll n l pituntion rfv*" '■) !V :-n,A,. -.-•.tl'v nivl Iliere (•■rii 'io doubt as to IV i-""o. TV oniTurinff nri'/"K •■•MI r-'-Ti"'\ ?"r +he -.rife who i'.-iii rhvniin-h. il' is i" thr» disinj n ,.(-.,.) ~.1 .-.-,'-if r,r |1" filiiiimnvvhor, n ,vl f"'- '-he .■'„„•) f ,f n ll xvho will, (■i l;l f fiwx-n ~r,,,,,,M.-s hove boon pp'I-

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