WAITAWIIENA RAILWAY DEVIATION.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 415, 18 November 1911, Page 5

WAITAWIIENA RAILWAY DEVIATION.

To the Editor. Sir,-—Re the much-vexed question as to Wether Mr Wilson and Mr Wall were appointed along '.villi Mr EilioK on the question of the Royal Commission. As one of the convenors of the roads meeting, and being secretary of the Waitawhena Railway League, I thinkl can throw some light on the above Mr Boddie prosified at the roads meeting, At this meeting Messrs Wall, Wilson and Elliott were appointed as a deputation to wait upon the Minister of Public Works re the main road, and \l am glad that this meeting has borne fruit. The medical question was then discussed and it was the opinion of the meeting that the same deputation should wait upon the Minister in charge with a view to getting a subsidy, Mr Roddie then ciosed'the meeting, and with others departed for Te Kuiti. In the confusion that followed, Mr Elliott,as chairman of the Railway League, announced the railway question. Later tlie Royal Commission was discussed and the motion carried, the opinion of the meeting being that the same deputation being in Wellintgon, should act in this matter as well. Discussing the various proposals with Mr Wilson, later, outside the hall, Mr Wilson addressed me thus: "Well, Livingston, you have had a fine meeting, and you surely ought to get a road after this, but as for your Royal Commission, it is hopeless; the railway will go the other way, and you haven't got a ghost of a hope of bringing it here," and that on this question he would not go a yard to Wellington. It then dawned upon me that, though in the hurry and confusion the meeting was of the opinion that the same deputation would act on all these questions, neither; neither Mr Wall nor Mr Wilson were members of the Railway League; neither of them had been asked, therefore could not be expected to act on the deputation. A few days later I told Mr Elliott that ho would have to face the Minister on the railway question alone, as Mr Wall, being a new settler, didn't know anything about our rival routes, and Mr Wilson was opposed to the deviation altogether. —I am, etc., R. LIVINGSTON, | Secretary Waitewhena Railway [ League.