THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
j M AG. \l'M OIWS. The whole of New Zealand ought to tiumk the agitators in C'autwhiiry and ! WcstlamJ for having hastened the finishing of a rcallv national [:icco of railway const ruction—a line which has strategic importance in the event of war no less than economic advantage-'. ! The Arthur’s Pa-s tunnel is the longest railway tunnel in the British Empire, ■utnd we brieve, the sixth longest in I pint world. The commencement of such !an undertaking was an act of con- . siderablc courage, and whik the hopes j of the beginners were destined to ho i disappointed, by being long deferred. 1 it must he said that the physical difficulties proved greater than were to be exported. However, the past is gone, and in the immediate future the New Zealand system of railways, will be yuhstantially strengthened in usefulness. and. we believe, in earning power. by the completion the line connecting the east and west coasts of tin's island. And the opening of the tuntaol portion of the Midland Railway for traffic ought to bo celebrated as an epochal event in the history of Canterbury afld W eCtland. —.Lyttelton Times.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 February 1923, Page 2
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195THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 7 February 1923, Page 2
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