VISIT OF M’s.P.
OPPONENTS CONVERTED.
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association)
BLENHEIM, October 1. In acknowledging a civic welcome to-day extended to them upon ■ the completion of their inspection of the South Island Main Trunk railway, the Members of Parliament, who made the inspection referred to the impressions, which they .had formed regarding the country that is to be served by the line. * I think that most of us were impressed .with the fact that the land is really first, class, sa ul Hon. R. A. Wright. “You have some of the finest land in New Zealand, and that is saying a very great deal indeed.” -.7 ' A, .
Blaming the successive cHattges 4 of Government, fot the ngn-completion of the line, Mr Wright said: “It is just the fortunes of war. It does seem that you have been doggea Oy bad luck all along.” J 4 Mr. Munns, M.P.., said: “It is my first visit to your magnificent province, and I have been astonished by what I have seen. I was jtold that we were coming to land of precipices, rocks and barren land; but I have not seen a scrap of it. It is just good land all along the route.”
Mr Munns recommended the district to agitate for closer settlement. Mr Frank Langstono, M.P;, said he had always believed ; in the completion of this line so as to abolish! the two dead ends, ' 1 '' t
Mr Langstone added: "If the Reform and United Governments and the present Jjotchpotch political matri* mony- refused. complete 'the /line,* then Labour would complete it.”--Mr A. Harris, M.P., said he also was making his first acquaintance with the country that the line pased through. He assured them that he was deeply impressed with. the land he saw, though that did not necessarily mean that he would support the line.
The Hon. C. J. Carrington, M.L.C., said that he frankly confessed he had arrived prejudiced against the. line, for (the simple reason that he. had been under the impression that it followed a rocky the. way from Parnassus. “Haying the country,” said Mr Carrington, “I say, without the slightest fear of contradiction, that there is no province with greater possibilities for closer settlement than Marlborough. The party have left for Wellington.
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