NELSON'S RAILWAY NEEDS.
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 11. A large deputation, representing the Nelson province, waiiltxl pn the J'reinier this mornifcg to point, out the urgent necessity, for extending thu railway line as far as llope, where it would tap the couch road 'tio. Bullor. Mr Seddon said tire East Coast, connection tlftd boen approved by
Parliament, and hjrd not the contrnCjtors failed, Nelson Would by t(tis Lime liiivo had connection wit|.\ Christchurch. The grounds for malting the connection 'Mil 'been strengthened by time, by reason of thp growing deman<( for- land, timber, and coal. My (Sccfilpn expressed the opinion thai «'e woiiM eventually lune to look to the Nclspn distijct I'oi
JaiicJ for settlement. ily was not prepared to ask liH' eolonvf to borrow more than a jmiDiiOit l a ymr, bu't ho agiveod vith the necessity for ex*, tending this line to a Wins* point, and was prepared to press that vr>\v upon Ministers,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7870, 12 July 1905, Page 2
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157NELSON'S RAILWAY NEEDS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7870, 12 July 1905, Page 2
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