OTIRA TUNNEL.
DEPUTATION TO HON. G. W. RUSSELL. *>EH ASSOCIATION. COPYRIGHT.; CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. A deputation waited on Hon G. W. Russell to urge the speedy completion of Otira Tunnel, and that a report on the steps necessary for the electrification, should be secured from Air Evan Parry before his departure from the Dominion.
The Minister said the arguments of the deputation appealed strongly to him and lie would wire Hon. W. Fraser to ascertain what steps had been taken in regards to the electrification. He believed in the principle that public ex. penditure should be concentrated upon the most rapid possible completion of railway lines in order that they attain full revenue producing power as early as possible. Where land was largely increased in value by the construction of railways an equitable proportion of the increased values should become the property of the State. The day when twenty railway lines should he under construction for political reasons must cease. The policy must be based on business and commercial lines, bearing in mind the just claims of the various portions of the dominion to equal treatment
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 March 1919, Page 3
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186OTIRA TUNNEL. Hokitika Guardian, 24 March 1919, Page 3
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