Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, AUG. 11, 1900. Railway to the Beach.

Manawatu Herald, 11 August 1900, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, AUG. 11, 1900. Railway to the Beach.

» No district can afford to sleep in these days of push and rush, and any attempt to take life too easily causes the district to be unnoticed and uncared for. Push and earnestness are the watchwords of the successful man and must be those for a district which desires to keep pace with the progress of the colony. Are we keeping. sufficiently awake to our own interests in this town ? Have we obtained all that the town needs to secure its further developenient ? We are certain that we haye not by a long way, and that a developement of our unused enorgy would procure oertain advantages for the distriot. | Borne time ago the Borough Counoil

talked over the question of getting a railway to the beach, but their effort never got beyond this stage. It has been admitted that the line would not only be a great advantage to this town but would generally benefit Palmerston, Feilding, and Woodville. In the Old Country, London is covered with posters of the railway company offering trips to Brighton (on tbe sea shore) and. back for hajf-s.-_.rnwn, nnd tho trains aro liberpllv patronised. Who in Palmerston would grumble to pay two shillings and sixpence for a run of some hours on the seashore ? If anyone would it would be the doctors. Hesitation is great, and the hesitation to act in this matter brings us to the point where, with all due deference to the Borough Council we arrive at the couclusion why they do not act, and why there is need for the setting up of a totally different body for the opening up of our district. To successfully push a public matter through more than talk and wordy resolutions are needed. Much work lies before the men who will take up this agitation for a line to the beach, and some expense must be incurred. We feel sure that were the project taken up in the right spirit, the end would be accomplished, if not this year then next year. We need a strong committee of property holders, and we need the contributions of all property holders, and thus armed a good and successful fight could be made. Is there a citizen patriotic enough to make the necessary start ? The line would pay. It is not possible for the Government to make the line on their own action without a special Act of Parliament. Can they be induced to add this line in the new railway appropriations ? If they are not asked to do so we can depend they will not voluntarily do so. Who is to ask them ? As one looks into the matter there looms large plenty of work for an active young man, just the person who is at present missing from the scene. It may be urged, as a sort of damper on the proposal, that the Government will in all probability flatly refuse to do what is asked and therefore what is the use of trying to obtain the impossible. That of course would only be urged by the poor in spirit and in pocket, for history, even in Foxton, affords illustration of there being plenty of routes to get one's way, without getting it directly. We have other ideas how we might get our end-; served even did the Government turn a deaf ear to our first request, but our first business, if we want the line, is to ask for it, and tho sooner that is done the better chance there will be of getting it. Our membsr has promised to help, and our position with the powers that be are, just now, excellent, so that the opportunity is ripe if the people interested are.