LEVIN-MARTON RAILWAY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 453, 20 April 1909, Page 3

LEVIN-MARTON RAILWAY.

The combined representatives of the Chambers of Commerce, who met in convention last week, expressed the opinion that a trial survey of the proposed BevinMarton railway line is not necessary. What do these men, coming from all parts of the Dominion, know of the proposed route and its advantages to commerce ? asks the Horowhenua Chronicle. Judging by the opinion they have expressed they are completely in the dark. The whole country between Wellington and Auckland favours the construction of this line because it will shorten the journey by an hour or more ; railway officials realise that the saving of the sixteen miles circuitous course by way of Palmerston would be an immense saving in wear and tear of railway material; the Union Shipping Company perceive that trains arriving at Wellington an hour earlier than at present means quicker despatch of steamers to the South Island, and a consequent gain at the end of their journey. Booked at in every way the construction of the BevinMarton railway is a crying want, and the combined wisdom of the commercial men who ventured the opinion that the line was not necessary is not worthy of serious consideration. We take more notice of the children of the Halcombe school who telegraphed last week to the Premier congratulating him on the offer of a Dreadnought to defend the Empire.