A RAILWAY LEAGUE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 65, 25 June 1910, Page 5

A RAILWAY LEAGUE.

TO DO BATTLE FOR NORTH ISLAND.

By Telegraph —Press Association. Palmerston North, Last Night.

Delegates of the Chambers of Commerce from all parts of the North Island met ra conference at Palmerston to-day with a view to forming a North Island Railway League. Mr. Haydon (president of the local Chamber) presided, and delegates spoke at length on the unfair allocation of public works money for rai'lway construction between the two islands, and also regarding the differential freight and passenger rates. The meeting resolved that a North Island Railway League be formed, constituted by delegates from tilie North Island Chambers of Commerce, with the object of obtaining a fairer distribution of railway expenditure as between ihe North and South Islands, and with the object- of enquiring into the system of differential freights and rates as between the North and the South Islands. It was further resolved that the membership consist of members of Chambers of Commerce of the North Island and other public bodies, as tin; League from time to time determines; delegates from Chambers not to exceed two; each Chamber to be entitled to one vote at the League meetings. The first general meeting is to be held at Palmerston during Winter Show Week in 1911. I

Mr. W. Hevdon was elected president. It was further resolved that this meeting, representing the whole of the Chambers of Commerce in the North Island, desires to call the attention of the Government to the injustice which the North Island has suffered for years past in the matter of railways, and strongly urges that a more vigorous policy of railwav construction lie at once undertaken in the North Island.