NELSON PRODUCE

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10287, 23 May 1919, Page 5

NELSON PRODUCE

RESOLUTIONS OP A CONFERENCE.

Press Association,

NELSON, May 22,

A conference of representatives of the local bodies and producers’ organisations of the province considered questions relating to the deevlopment of the district. It was decided to urge the Government to commence the construction of the Midland railway from Glenhopo; to give Nelson representation in the Legislative Council, and remedy anomalies in the now electoral boundaries of Nelson, Motueka and Marlborough. The conference affirmed the principle of there being one deep-sea port for the province. Captain Worley, of the New Zealand Engineers, who was in charge of light railway construction for tho Now Zealand Division on the Western Front, addressed a letter to the conference strongly advocating the system as a solution of tho traffic problems of the district. He favoured a two-feet gauge with steam or petrol engines for haulage, the speed being about eight miles an hour, enabling tho lines to bo laid on the roadside without danger to ordinary traffic. The trucks used in France, Ho says, would carry about H tons of fruit. The district could be railed in a few months, and the system would be far cheaper than the construction und maintenance of permanent roads. Tho conference decided to cable to Mr ■Massey, asking him to purchase light way material for the district'