THE PROPOSED RAILWAY IN THE WESTERN DISTRICT.

Southland Times, Issue 1590, 11 June 1872, Page 2

THE PROPOSED RAILWAY IN THE WESTERN DISTRICT.

Sib, — la your report of a meeting, held in my house on the 3 1st ult., to consider the beat means of securing railway communication" in the Western district, I find that certain suggestions made by me at the meeting have.Jiot .been mentioned, and as I consider them of sufficient importance to obtain some consideration, .1, should feel obliged if you would publish them. , What I said was, that instead of a line of railway t being constructed from Riverton as far as the Ofcautau, and then striking off by Heddon Bush towards the railway lino at Winton, it should'go from ''Riverton to the Otautau, but instead of being continued from there to Winton, the connection with the Oreti railway should strike off below Flint's Bush, and go through the Waianiwa, to j6ih the railway via Wallacetown. My reasons. for^susjgesting this route were that the proposed line should pass through a tract of country which offered' some reasonable prospect of supplying traffic, as I certainly believe that bypassing through the Flint's Bush, rW,ai»niwa, and New River districts, a large "amount of traffic might be secured, aud this is no doubt a point that will weigh -very materially with the Government in coming to a decision in the matter. Wallacetowri, as a Government township, and as a place which will one day become of some importance, would then be supplied with railway communic^i x tion. If this plan is. not adopted", the important districts I have named will be entirely shut out from the benefits of traffic facilities, and as this is a very-important matter to. the .settlers in those districts, I hope they^wyLll attend the ; meeting to be hold in_ Riverton on Friday next, so fhat the question may.be fully ventilated, and a "decision come to ; which will prove of benefit to the • community generally. — I am, &c, James Hamxwoh". Joint's Bush, June 8. -■■ /.'■' — -♦ ' ._