The Gorse Line.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 229, 30 August 1883, Page 3

The Gorse Line.

OFFICIAL KEPLY FROM THE CABINET. ' j MATTER JUSI'AS IT- WAS. I ". V ' • •*• •-•'' „> ! OUR MEMBER STILL TEMPORISING, j SeSU^LT "UNSATISFACTORY. ! (SPECIAL .TELEGRAM; .TO STAEnABD.] ■A J i fFtohrour own correspondent.) Wellivgton, This Day. Thefbllowjng reply} to ther ; memorandum^, Messrs ( Btevens, Wilson,! and Seffdon, M._*.R.'s. has just come- ,tc thMrtW' 41 .^ ; " ; "; !■ yyyi'H ,^s*PuDlib Wbrks v Qffice, WdJ&gton^ iivmtkiXX'i •-A^Bt > 28tii, 1883.; *€hw_L__iar— - y , .[ i ' r '.,Xy'yX. 1 '.'/.','■/-'. - " ! I have^the honor 'to;' ackniq wledge the Tecipt of your* communication of the 21st iim^^WiaHiw^J^. *»' ,#60,000 has bee&Ybieu^bV'tntf —"buße' for the extension of the line; from Masterton, ft'ilJVc^r^sßibleto apply for a further vote this year out of the sum of £200,000 tjlldciteot'ra^he"' schedule of the .Loan Aet-tbwards 'the ; cbnstruction, of the Wellington-New Plymouth Railway.-* ~~~The corisi|cierations which were discussed at our interview why a commence—ent should M;uiade .next year witbrthe c^nn^tion between the FoxtonUew Ply mouth line' and, Wpodyille, pj_*rThat the line frotn Nitpiertowards Woodville /would \. then have leached Tahorafte, about 16 -miles from Woodiulte tl and ii t'^at till order'" , i^o^ reach Woodville about -the- same time as the Sxtonsioii^irom Napier; thus < cbmplet* ing , between Napier and New Plymouth, it would be necessary nexfr' Session to make provision for commencirig;both of these extensions will be' brought under the notice of the Cabinet when framing the Estimates l lb be submitted to the House: next Session , as also the further consideration that thM^is, a possibility' of the "WbliingtonManajjatu, linebeingi'completed m about three years , and that, therefore the com - pletion of the section referred to above will give railwayj»m"munication between Napier and Wellington, as well as between Napier ami Foxton. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, (Signed)) Walter W.- Johnstow. . CIL- -.fry. ■