BULLER GORGE LINE
WESTPORT PROTEST. BIG DEMONSTRATION TO BE ORGANISED. • • WESTSpOR-T,- September 11. At a meeting-ctjnvened by tlie Mayor Mr Harkness/-'held u in, the Town j Hill, arrangements Were made for 'v. holding'a big public .demonstration on v •’ Monday evening’ : to ’protest emphatically against the/recommendation of the Railway Board that the Westport-: Iriangahua" section of railway under .9^' construction be discontinued. It is.-recalled that the late j'lr W. F. Massey, a/ter emerging from one ot V vithe mines. 1 : in tlie Buller Gorge which • he had closely inspected, fervently re- ' Mmarked: “This line' must he completed;” :and the late Mr P. G. MorV ugarif -Director of the Government Geo- [ "logical Survey, conservatively estimJ aied,-the Coalfield that the railway fr ' would .serve at 20,0()d,000 tons. The was emphatic that the Buller line, beiilg a‘ mineral railway, ., —would give the Westport-Mokihinui race ‘for"being the best - paying section, in the Dominion. Passenger traffic would be a minor consideration beside the mineral traffic, for which this railway would chiefly cater.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1931, Page 3
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