MIDLAND RAILWAY
QUESTION BY MR BLACK
(By Telegraph) (From.:: Mail's’’ Parliamentary ""Reporter).
'WELLINGTON, 2nd August. Mr; r G.,.C- Black .(Motucka) gave notice in the House of Representatives yesterday to ask the Prime Minister whether,' in view of the fact that the filling of the gap and : the completion of tho Midland; Railway will be the most effective pieans of restoring prosperity •to the "Murchison district, and the statement* in the Budget that tho estimate for'-the line has probably been upset by tlie" recent earthquake, the full effects of- which are not yet known, and that th,e, proposed route will have to be reexamined, he will arrange for the engineers tQ make the necessary survey without delay; and (2) whether, in view of the .fact that a similar reference is made in the Budget to ihe InangahuaWestport line* ihe engineers’ survey will be carried,out forthwith to permit work being; commenced at the Reefton end yjthout delay. .
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 3 August 1929, Page 14
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