MOTUROA-OPUNAKE RAILWAY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 54, 28 October 1912, Page 6

MOTUROA-OPUNAKE RAILWAY.

DEPUTATION IN WELLINGTON. The deputation which waited on the Minister of Public Works on Friday night in respect to the above railway pointed out the difficulties under which the district laboured for want of a railway, and urged the authorisation of a railway, such as a light line. The Minister was much impressed with the earnestness of the deputation, reports the Taranaki Herald, and understood exactly the difficulties ami said he would endeavour to alleviate them, but said that it was no use promising anything that he might not be able to carry out. He realised they could not go on as they were, and that the roads would not carry the traffic. Personally, he favoured light lines, and thought if the Government could not make railways, local enterprise might be allowed to do so, or to give a guarantee against loss. The position now was that the Government had no money for the railway, and might not be able to borrow /favourably. He could not promise that Cabinet would include the line in the Authorisation Bill, but if it did not, he could assure the deputation that the line was no further from realisation than if it were authorised this session. If the light line policy were adopted, then he assured the deputation it would be applied to this part.cuhu district. Mr Eraser promised to go right through the district in the recess.