MR. SEDDON IN WESTLAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7708, 10 January 1905, Page 2

MR. SEDDON IN WESTLAND.

UIOPLIES TO DEPUTATIONS, (Per Press Association.) lIOKITIKA, Jan. 7. The I'miiier, replying to deputations, said it was necessaiy that ho should return to Wellington at once, owing to impprtant duties, including the setting up of Land and other Commissions.! Thy Government intends tp ask Parliament next session for a special grant to carry the telephones to the bade blocks. 'JHrc Midland Hailway should have been completed live or six yours ago, and the colony had been retarded "for years by the delays arising from tho'contract. The line stood on an euiml footing with tho North Island trunlc line. He hoped for the early completion of the Staircase dully section but at the present r a te of progress it \vould take four years. He hoped 1 arliqnmnt would provide fund*} to omplete that poition in two yenrs nt the most. Dealing with prosjwebing he urged i local bodies to s?l aside a working gold/ields' revenuei each year for the specific work of prospecting, aiij) asked t|iem to suggest alterations in the mining insulations to help towards the work. The Premier, finding that there was difficulty in getting, the miners at wprk in the Westport district to load the Mercedes with coal for tho Rast, appealed to the lieads of (ho Miners' Association, when the men promptly ngreed to load the boat without delay.-