GENERAL TELEGRAMS
RAILWAYMEN AND UNIONISM. By Telegraph—Press Association. Oamaru, Yesterday. . The Timaru branch of the A.S.R.S. passed a resolution strongly objecting to the executive council taking steps to join any outside organisation which can, in any way possible, even as a last resort as provided in Professor Mills' scheme of organisation, drag railway employees into a strike, and to adhere to their own book of rules and recoinmend members to vote against the proposed affiliation with outside unions.
EAST COAST RAILWAY. Waihi, Yesterd&v. The Premier to-day, in the presence of an enormous local gathering, turned first sod of the Waihi-Tauranga section 'of the East Coast Railway. 1 In a speech, Sir Joseph Ward defended the , Government's borrowing policy on the i ground that it was demanded by the needs of the .development of the coun-; try and more rapid railway construction. Since he had been Premier, £1,769,449 more had been expended in the North Island than in the South.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 217, 12 March 1912, Page 2
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