ROYAL COMMISSION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1505, 3 February 1916, Page 2

ROYAL COMMISSION.

ORDER OF REFERENCE. The following is the order of reference of the Royal Commission set up to inquire into and report in connection with the Foxton wharf purchase, Levin-Greatford railway and Sandon tramway extension questions. The Commission will report on the following matters: — x. Whether it is desirable in the public interest that the Foxton Harbour Board should be permitted to purchase from the Railway Department the railway wharf at Foxton, and if so on what basis the purchase money should be ascertained and what should be the terms and conditions of such purchase. 2. Whether it is desirable in the public interest that the Sandon Tramway should be purchased by the Government and be connected with the Main Trunk railway at Marton or Greatford as part of the railway system of the Dominion. 3. Whether, in the alternative, it is desirable in the public interest that the County Council having control of the Sandon Tramway should be permitted to connect that tramway with the Main Trunk railway at Marton or Greatford. 4. Whether it is desirable in the public interest that a new line of railway should be constructed by the Government from Levin or some other suitable point on the Main Trunk railway to Foxton.