PALMERSTON RAILWAY DEVIATION.
Asked by a Palmerston Standard reporter if he thought there was any - fear of legislation being put through the House with a view to holdinglip or delaying the proposed railway deviation at Palmerston North, the Prime Minister said he had no reason to believe that this would be the case. There was a substantial majority of members in the House who' were in favour of the proposal, and he saw no reason why it should not proceed. * “Might not the financial stringency tend to hold it up indefinitely?” the reporter asked. / “Oh, no, I don’t think so,” replied Mr Massey. “All that the ment wants now are the plans of the deviation. The Department must satisfy the Government that everyt thing is in order, and then the work •should he riyidv" to he taken in hand.”
' He added that lie was aware that , the 'interests of Palmerston North were bound up in the deviation proposal, and that there need be no apprehensions entertained as to the proposal being turned down.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2405, 16 March 1922, Page 2
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173PALMERSTON RAILWAY DEVIATION. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2405, 16 March 1922, Page 2
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