PRIVATE RAILWAYS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 38, 12 February 1903, Page 4

PRIVATE RAILWAYS.

I thk pßGurKii's vraws. : PES PEEBS ASSOCIATION. " Wellxnotoit. February 11. i& deputation waited on the Premier rLevin regarding tha connection oi "p Qovernmznt and Macawatu rail jijy lin?s by an exension of the eslang tramway from Fox'on to iannoD. [The chairman cf the loeal County (Hmeil state! that th-re waa no diffiiJty in the way a? a turn of £140,000 |d already been urderwri'ttn in oadon for thecom'ruction of the line, lit Seddon said tba* he woull never yji pariy to placing an ulterior means fcommuniuatioQ in the hands of a ivats company. Ttn Manawitu disnct,he alleged, had suffered from tint, ad he alsi instanced the Midl\cd Riilay. In fact, he said, there was no tiivay consb-acfed by piivate capitil hat had not in the end been inimical /the beat interests of the Stat?. He jpoold say at once, that thty would never gmt what they wanted through him as a gnrivate work. The Government hid pud it down as a principle that they (Should build the main arteri .1 lin-s beloop lines, and Parliament had deluded thit the North Inland Trunk rXine should be fivstcompeted. The of I-:st sesaiaa of £'2,200, -000 for public works was as much as laay 800,000 people in any put of the |world could staid, and m»ra than the was entitlei to. If the colony gpul i's neck in the noosa by borrowing, c'tfaere would certainly b3 a day of = =.