MORE RAILWAYS WAITED.
fJeSso’d Gets a Rebuff.
Press Association,
Wellington, September 0,
Sir Joseph Ward was waited on by a Nelson deputation to-day with a request that the Midland Railway be authorised to Hope Junction and that speedier progress be made with the lino at present authorised.
The Premier said there were seventeen linos on tho authorisation list and to grant tho deputation’s request would mean that tho claims of the other sixteen lines would be pressed. As a matter of public policy it was desirable first to complete the North Island trunk line. When that work was finished there would ha .£350,000 available for other railways. Within the means at its disposal Government would make provision lor lines already authorised, but ho could not promise any more.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8917, 10 September 1907, Page 2
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128MORE RAILWAYS WAITED. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8917, 10 September 1907, Page 2
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