NELSON’S RAILWAY CAMPAIGN.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 September 1924, Page 3

NELSON’S RAILWAY CAMPAIGN.

NELSON, Sept, o

The Nelson Progress League has just printed for eirciilatioii throughout the Dominion a map of the South Island, on which is shown in a very striking manner the compartively short gap existing in the South Island Main Trunk Railway hetween Nelson and Invercargill. The line from the Nelson end is now live miles beyond fdenliope, leaving a gap of only 05 miles from that end to Inangaliua .luuctioli. The distance from Nelson to Invercargill is shown as being 701) miles, there being Gin miles of the railway completed. With the. tilling of the iVi-nule gap the railway wil then run from one end of the island to the other. Ihe map referred to demonstrates the strategic value of the route, as being an inland one giving access to centra! coalfields, and shows how easily connexion can he made with Wai ran and Rleiiheini, and a naval base at the Sounds. The necessity for cnmpleting the line at an early date is being urged in order to make it pay. and it is pomtei out. that Nelson on the one hand, and Westland and Canterbury on the other, have plentv of products to exchange. Considerable newspaper correspondence on the subject has Teen going on in the Christchurch Press lately. A contributor from AVair.au. who joined in recently, strongly urges the early filling of the gap now existing. The matter is lioing taken no with energy. I>.' both NOlson and West Coast people, and a representative deputation is to ' |si NWcllingCon shortly to urge upon the Government the importance of completing the South Island Mam 1 rmik ■Railway, via Murchison and the \\«st Const.