M.P.’S ON TOUR

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8346, 5 February 1913, Page 3

M.P.’S ON TOUR

Press Association. IiUNEDIN, February 4. Tho tour of the northern members of Parliament hr Southland was concluded to-day, when a visit was made to Cinch a valley, ten cars covering seventy miles from and back to the starting point, Balclutha. At Tnapeka Month a good reception was met with. Mr A. S. Malcolm, M.P. for Clutha, said the people wanted a railway up the valley. a distance of twenty-one miles. He had been assured tho line could be constructed for £98,000, and it would serve 189,000 acres of country. Mr Mander, replying for the visitors, said he was quite certain the people were entitted to a railway, and if the Government could not find It shopld let the residents build the line themselves and the Government if necessary could take rc over later. He reiterated this statement at lunch at Clydevale, and Mr Okey _ supported it and advocated utilising light lines of returned to Balclntna in Elmo to catch the afternoon train to Dilnedin. Messrs Mander. Okey, Wilkinson, Escott, _ Lradney, T. W. Rhodes, and Harris came to town and will go north to-morrow, while Messrs Sykes, Bollard, and Wilson, with their wives, remained at Balclutha, and will spend a few more days in Otago.