PALMERSTON RAILWAY DEVIATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2203, 16 November 1920, Page 2

PALMERSTON RAILWAY DEVIATION.

Mr. Ed. Newman, M.P. fur (his consti(ncjH'.v. informs us Uml (ho statement published in our Palmerston eontemporavies Unit (lie Palmerston railway ’deviation is to be gone on with immediately is not correel. Mi’ Newman says: —“The work will not he "'one on with until (he Premier and lion. Mr Coates have inspected both proposals, and have decided which the Covernment will adopl."

The two proposals referred to by Mr Newman are ihe Palmerston deviation and the Leviu-Marton link of the Main Trunk line.

Mr Ed. Newman, M.P., interviewed the Premier in reference (o the Levin-Marton railway deviation on, Friday. The Premier informed Mr Newman that he and the .Minister for Public Works hoped to visit (heproposed route this mouth, hut the exact dale could nol he-announced.

A WELLINGTON OBJECTION. Mr M. A. Carr (president of the Wellington Chamber of Commeree) slated al a meeting of (Ik; council yesterday that it bail come to his knowledge fhal the L’ailway De--partmenl intended to spend about £000.00(1 on |!ie erection of a new*

railway station on a-site about a. mile and a-half out of Palmerston North. He had seen a photograph of the locality, showing [he whole of the land under water, a photograph that was only taken a few weeks ago. It seemed wrong to him that such a heavy expenditure should he « contemplated, when, as he was in- r formed, the present station and yards could he improved and extended, on plops prepared by Mr E. H, Hjley, at a cost of about £40,000, Such expenditure “was hardly warranted at a time when Wellington 't urgently needed general relief by an alterative line over the Rimutakas and the deviation at Paekakariki.