THE CENTRAL ROUTE.
The New Zealand Herald makes the following comments as to the expected determination of the South. Island to resist the formation of the main trunk line of railway through the North Island, and the consequences of their obstruction : — " If the Southern members eombino, as it is expected they will, to refuse the loan for the North Island Trunk Railway, and if they succeed m their patriotic attempt, members of the North Lsland, unless they are prepared tamely to submit to this injustice, will have only oue course opeu to them. They also will have to combine and block all legislation affecting the South Island. A political deadlock, is never a very satisfactory state of things, even at the best of times, but there are circumstances m which, as the less of two evils, it becomes a political necessity. The stoppage of all colonial legislation, though, it would be a serions injury to the colony, would teach some useful lessons; especially to that party which, if rumours of commercial depression are true, could least afford to wait. The construction of the trunk railway is not ouly a matter of political juytioe, but is necessary to the opening and commercial development of the North Island.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 146, 19 May 1884, Page 2
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206THE CENTRAL ROUTE. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 146, 19 May 1884, Page 2
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