WELLINGTON WOODVILLE LINE.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 21, 20 August 1886, Page 2

WELLINGTON WOODVILLE LINE.

11l the debate oil the V w /. lint 1 Loan Hill, Captain liv til. ait... r 'for Hawke's Hay, i« r. j r:. 1 , Hansard to hu\t made tl.« 1 llowt ; wonderful ."Uttein.'iils : Then I come to tl u railway from I Wtllingtott ato VfN«l\i!lf. It it possible that it a) it iv • »ry t» form that railway by . .•! b\ , n, i owing to the iL'laXiCi fr :n W i. .h to Wellington by way of tl*'.* Vt L • Coast being to iii.irl: »• rU rlb .n it u by tli« line through ti.< .inn. f i i Island by way of Mt uru n. I «H> n : ! think it will be necessary to carry t' e ! line beyond hketanuita i r a on,, siderahlo period. I may alto out that the result of com; ' line from I'aimer*'.on to W. uviii, willlw to oomif t Uio Kaat l .if w.th Wanganui and Taranaki o:i ti oi . aide, and with Wellington and the ' South on the other. It will, h fact. • * Hast and W'e*t< ..■».» W !u ;» ■i. and with tl e Norti. 1-i .i.d 1 funk line at Mart sary to make that cm.i u « aid le ! spent much in 're pr ' ''il ly during tlieneat twoye tliai- . y ;» I turn on tl.f W 1. . could be. It . n.t t M ta another very •• d rw , n n i . i latter line ahouid not i><. ) id nl »u iat present. la- ■; • Is : •» | acheme, of which w 1: ,r nW’ •«, i and of winch vi :a*ifu is <•!. t. .it from which I fe_r vert 1::*1 • .1 will* 1 1 j present lime plenty ot wi.at %. i i tv" call foreign ra; "-*l i« 1. ii.' o-cl 1 into Uiraw- b'lali districts. !• .id w > have taken up lan 1 mre fid ling bosh. 1 erecting fence., bu i<i:ag Lii.aca.ani

generally doing the work of colonsza tiou, and therefore tJiere ia a conaidrr.ddo amount of money-capital lunpg sjwat tliere in tiiat way. There ,14 alio being spent money in tlie eon effictioe of roads fir the purpose of n^l]nsf t>»' land available for settlet* 5.* There i”. on the whole, great i'f . riiy there. I suppose that there h more prosperity in those bushdistricts at the present time than thero ia in any other part of the colony. this, we are going to pour in this railway money, which I conceive to lie almost useless expenditure. The people are not in want of ni iney. 1 may be told that the people arc in want of a railway for transport ; h it it if no such thin", for there is nothing to be sent out of tliis district, nor is there likely to be anything sent su it for some time to come. When f :i:. people hate felled their biudi, have i 1 it, have fenced, and have 1 tiaiir land there may bo soineg {flwend off the land ; but that for sonic time to come: .mi. in . y opinion, it will be years before there wdl lie anything to send off the land except, perhaps, stock, which will probably travel more ch< *ply on frot th«ui by rati. But, certainly, for hree or four tears there will L* notluag at all to send. And 1 now here is aiother reason why I say. 1 Do not push on this line now : in i time or fovr years many of these <lefurred paynent settlers will brobably k reduced to their last penny. It takes years U make a bush-farm pay; and it will, m doubt, be the case that I when theso nion have sunk their capital in impmuig and stocking their lands they wil be very short of ready cadi. They will, no doubt, have plenty of too, but no money; ami »:.en, if ever, would be the time to ! push on pabb works in the district, p i as to give tom a chance to survive r. bad time. They will have a certain amout of produce to send away and tby will, moreover, be I •• hard up." nd the expenditure will i bt of irreat • vantage to them. In | the mean timet 1m expenditure will be | unnecessary, ad certainly very unprofitable.