THE LATE RAILWAY RESOLUTIONS.

Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 230, 23 June 1877, Page 2

THE LATE RAILWAY RESOLUTIONS.

(To the Editor of the I’atha .Mam,.) Sill, —In order to make as public as possible the opinions of Mr Bryce upon the question or the route that should he taken by the railway from Kai Iwi to Carlyle, I herewith forward you a copy of a letter sent by him to mo as Chairman of the • late meeting here. Although the meeting was not Ladled in a formal (in fact in a very loose and vague) manner,'still I think that, when a report is being circulated tiiat the railway is to ho taken in a direction that would not ho ao beneficial to the country as some other direction might be, an expression of public opinion upon the matter is very desirable It would .surely have been very foolish for us lu wait until Government had decided upon a line, and then have commenced to hold meetings, to endeavour to have that line changed. I do not suppose speaker at our meeting' pretended to sufficient engineering skill to say that a line could or could not be taken inland, but that would not be a bar to the meeting expressing an opinion that an inland route would if practicable be preferable to one by the sand-hills.—l Ain, sir, GEO. S. BRIDGE. Waverley, June 18, 1877. [Copy.] Wanganui June 16 1877. DnAu Sm, —I beg- to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the Stli instant, forwarding a copy of a resolution passed in a public meeting at Waverley, on the Gth instant. It I had not seen a newspaper report of the meeting in quesiion, I should have been in soma doubt as to the reason for pawing the resolution ; but I understand now tint it was pasted in consequence of a rumour to the effect that the hue of rah way was intended to he taken near the sand hills, seaward of Waveriey. I hope the lumour is nothing more than a rumour, and do not gather either from your letter, or the newspaper report of the meeting, that there is any sufficient auihority for it. I perfectly agree with the sentiment of fho resolution, in respect to keeping the line inland ; but I do not pretend to sufficient engineering skill tube able to decide between the respective merits of Mr Hogg’s line and that of any other engineer, moie especially as I am not well acquainted with either. lam not quite sure what the 1 meeting meant by the “special action” which it desired Mr Fox to take in the matter, hut I may venture to express a hope that neither Mi-Fox nor the s ,•) tiers of Wairoa, will do anything to retard the construction of a line, which, as yet, has progressed in an extremely “ leisurely ’ maimer. In my opinion, a motion in the Mouse, which would seem to he the course indicated, would have the effect I deprecate. —I am, .to.. (■Signed), JOHN BRYCE.