THE GORGE RAILWAY.
Contract to be Let at Once. To be JFinlshed m Two Tears ; .!,",-.'. Faimerstam to be the Teiv i v r '••'•.. t.^ !■'■'■••' ™4 4 ««' l 8» ' .'■'.'■ '"! ••■ ! (Special to the Sicmdm^ (F/roi^ ijpur own Correspondent.) * •■;.»<>,)■ iu-i! Wednesday Evening. I have just seen your member,' who | informs title thlitf &£ Richardson, u^in^^i? b^PuWic Works, is going to let the Gorge Railway contract at j oAce^andklso that ft bin Taboraite to .Woodrille. Ht promises the completibn of the line right through m two years. L understand from !your member that the Minister of PJublici "VN^prka quite concui-8 that Palmerston is^ke- proper place' 1 for the junction, l>Ht lie -Will have to consult hid eolle^nesjrst. v 'Mn.MACarthur iellsme r ; <be doeg hot "anticipate. any diflß.cnl.ty ! libpVt ''the change of the designation of " t^e roiitfe ' from Punnyth!orpe to Pal • nierston, as it .will be a mere niattei:>of f6rm^: I learn, further that there is • " ndiprftbability of getting- the^Palmer>i!'stoh'<9orge &tetidn undertaken this I ; fesHioh: 'The Works how to be forth* ' .' with' undeytiiken' 'should; make things ' 'preity brisk m the Paimerston and , j r^oodv)Ul^ : dir.?qtipn, |and piit -.an end ;i i; • to the rtdbjiresair.n that has prevailed 'there for the past few years. !lt is ' .^ithih my ; knowledge thkt your f ; in(fetnber' lias' fexertbd himself ; tp the v ;\iiim()«t 1; m . impressing »poni the ; 'Minister for Pab' lie WprKs'the'iirgent / 4nipprtance of pushing on railway works m your ihstrict. .T : u- 1 [The] foregoing was published as to-day;] j
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 286, 30 October 1884, Page 3
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242THE GORGE RAILWAY. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 286, 30 October 1884, Page 3
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