"NO PASSENGERS."
" The first train from Ambcrlcy to Waipara ran on Saturday ; there were no passengers.’’ Such was the intelligence conveyed by tclegarm. This Waipara extension of the northern line from Christchurch is the latest addition to our New Zealand railways—and, apparently, also to the unprofitable class. It goes nowhere: it leads nowhere. Waipara is a name and nothing more. Nobody lives there, and probably nobody will ever live there for
some time to come. It may be asked, Why then was the railway made ? The answer will be glib and ready:—To provide work for the Canterbury unemployed. Exactly so : but could not the Canterbury unemployed have been put to more profitable work than the construction of a railway for which there is not the slightest necessity, which will be of no real service to anybody for years to come, and whose only ralsund'ctre is that it afforded an excuse for spending a little more public money in that district ? — Pod .
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Patea Mail, 16 October 1880, Page 3
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161"NO PASSENGERS." Patea Mail, 16 October 1880, Page 3
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