BACKBLOCKS RAILWAYS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3340, 19 November 1919, Page 5

BACKBLOCKS RAILWAYS.

‘VALUE OF 11G}-I'l‘ LINES.

DARGAVILLE. No\3. 13.

Speaking at Baparoa, the Hon. J. Gr. Coate‘,s~, the POS:-tmva.s)fc-I'4G'roll)el‘al‘ and member for Kaipara, said he could not too s‘f.-rcngly speak ‘of {he advantages of Eight hallway lines to and in the quick v:‘£-3\’elopmellt of some Of the back areas. He had seen during the War, and had been able to alJDrecia.te the tremendous usefulness of light linesnot lines that could be kept permanefftly where they were fix-sf. placed, «but: lines that could be put ‘down where l'3.l'(‘T.ron it was intended that a road should go. When the line had served its ‘purpose it could be "taken up and f»:‘:na::!':‘:'red to some other I“;o\‘\’ district.

Railway construction in this distrjdt, he added, Was, in his opinion, one of ‘the most important subjects. The people who sacrificed the pleasures Cf "city life and went into the back blocks deserved every consideration when money was being authorised for new lines. ,