MR. COATES AND SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
“I have never been against the •completion of the South Island Main Trunk Railway,” remarked the Right Hon. J. G. Coates (Leader of the Opposition) when interviewed by a “Lyttelton Times” reporter on Sunday evening. “If it is necessary and if it is a sound proposition it ought, o'f course, to be completed. All I have ever said,” he continued, “is that we should know the economic effect of the completion of the.line —'whether the capital and operating costs will be balanced by such benefits as development and increased business. This must be known before anything is done.” When shown a statement regarding the proposed railway, which was published by a contemporary as having been made by Mi’. Coates at .Aulckland, he said: “I have never made any .such statement. It has come out of the imagination of the man who wrote it. The only statement I made was made to the “New Zealand Herald.” •.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3955, 13 June 1929, Page 2
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160MR. COATES AND SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3955, 13 June 1929, Page 2
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