MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8020, 5 January 1906, Page 2

MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS.

PER PREBS ASSOCIATION, Dunbdix, January 1. The Hon. AV. Hall-Jones waii engaged to-day on departmental business, and in the afternoon visited the Marine fish hatchery at Portobello. Sir J. G. Ward arrived from South this evening, and was at once waited on by a deputation, who presented a petition bearing the signatures of three thousand lending business men, Com. panies, and residents asking for facili. ties for access to the foreshore. The portion of the city which is on the south-east side of tho railway is only acccssable by way of three streets siuco the erection of the new railway station across Stuart-street, and the petition asks (hat an overhead bridge be erected near the new railway station or a sub. way constructed. The Minister, in reply,held out little hope of an over bridge, but saw no objection to a subway, save that no money was at present available. To-morrow deputations arc to wait on the Minister to protest against taking more of the Harbor Board's ciidoiYiiiru! : constituting the foreshoro, for railway purposes, over seventy acres of what was originally intended should be tho chief business part of the city having already been taken, and only the cost pf reclamation being •.paid.