AGAINST SOUTHERN LINE
REPLY TO PRIME MINISTER Press Association WELLINGTON, Today. At a meeting of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce tonight, Mr. E. Salmond, chairman, denied the statement made by the Prime Minister that the chamber was actuated by jealousy of the South Island in its opposition to the completion of the South Island Main Trunk railway without further inquiry. If the Prime Minister, by further inquiry, could convince the public that the line would pay, the chamber would whole-heartedly support the scheme, but the chamber objected to the country being saddled with an extra £ 200,000 a year for a line which, by present indications, would not anywhere near pay. The charge of jealousy was only an attempt to draw a red herring across the trail and to avoid further inquiry.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 693, 19 June 1929, Page 16
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