NORMANDY RAILWAY STATION SITE.

Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 451, 9 August 1879, Page 2

NORMANDY RAILWAY STATION SITE.

We take tho following letter from the JS T cw Zeularnl Times of ihc sth August;— Sir. —Great indignation is felt here : -t a statement which appears in your issue of the 2(!lh ultimo, in the shape of a telegram from llawcra referring to flic Normanby railway station site. The whole telegram is a deliberate misrepresentation from becoming to end, and is intended to serve the purpose of a few land specniators, rind an interested Government engineer. It is only alter endless correspondence, petitioning, depntationising of Ministers, and holding public mootings, &c., on the part of the Normanby settlers, that they have at length succeeded in inducing the Government to agree to place, not only the railway station, but also the post and telegraph offices, on the site desired by them. And is a whole community to be overthrown, and years of labor and expended capital thrown away, for the sake of scheming land speculators? No, sir. Both Mr Macaiulrew, Mr Sheehan, Major Atkinson, Mr Blackett, and every other disinterested person who has had any opportunity of inspecting personally the various sites offered, have had to admit the superiority of the site now decided upon as compared with tho specniators’ site, as well as the justice of the Normanby settlers’ claims to have these offices in the right place. I am sorry yonr Hawera correspondent, whoever he may be, should have lent his pen to the furtherance of the object of a few land speculators, to tho detriment of a whole district, well knowing, as he must do, the whole of the circumstances connected with the case. Trusting yon will find space to insert tho above in your columns, —I am, &e., Chas. E. Gibson, On behalf of the Normanby settlers. Normanby, August 1, [The relegram to which Mr Gibson refers was forwarded to ns by the Press Agency, and did not come from our correspondent.— Ed. N.Z.T.~\