OPUNAKE RAILWAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 221, 18 March 1914, Page 5

OPUNAKE RAILWAY.

* J ■ , . ho.v. vv. ii. umam ■ DEPUTATIOX AT ilAtfiu. ,' ■. . Mr Borrie, chairman of the Tom"' I '- Board at Manaia, ycterdajLornE '*-" »rj?c< upon the Hon. VV. H fflS £ tlut ilo.ooo had been voied last aeasJOß ft or the purpose, but so far no C o£ % mencHUent had hem m d u . RtwSk ' £ wan to refe r to.the route rng that Ptftea wa.YthwJ portend id- *l ways ~o uldl he ftnJ mtui £fg" £ J \J A w^ e ' U,R ' tion l " u to «sfc "4 ill Wiikinwn, M.P., remarked thai J . »T m H had ( b «» brought- S le. : Herr.es' notice «ft'»!«&£ when • J e (Mr VVflkinaon, had .tojd. &*££ JJ tin- .lis i.et. -ifr-Uerries haloid tliaxol depu atton Mfthe.line would be ed at an early-date, Imt he (Mr VVU -fl kmson), as the member for the dbtritf I »onld again ike to eaplwfc.tbat tß"."* distwct. • im now tlnft Parliament hlfd aut fel| nsed it they cx^ted the ■ aoTarwrf *« Mr Ilerries admitted that this was* ',i most important anlf j,e assured ' fl the deputation ta»t tile Government did "''"s not place f15,000 on the Estimates for j£ he mere pleasure of just seeing it there. It was he intention of th/GovernmenJf ■'' % to see it spent; they recVnised the inn J portance of. the line, a; A hoped that at' M a wry .early date tho'>put/ would W 11 announced. Directly he m back to JI "qjlmgton he would eonvev the depn-" 3 tation's representations to Mr and he understood that the whole maV'dl ter was practically left to Mr Ma*iay,~ M Mr, Frascr,,and.the"Wef J the Public •Wo.rtos Department He (Mr 1 -1 Hemes) would urec upoii tbem the ne- -li cessity of<-alla*/i»#..tLe people's mindaJl with regawl to 'the. route, and diwetly-Jl that was decided'he hid little donbt m the work would' b*commenced. During-JH the summ«r'months the Public w,er,e,loth to menaw«T'i| from their regular'em«>lt)vment on farjn»Jfl and at hal Vesting, and the the desirability, as far at PMpH sible, of ptbvid,inn..work ditrjng the wbtedH ter. He. c'ould ,not aa.y anything the routes, because h*%af nothing, tire di?trlcti-it wai 3S,>«rf> mnc« l£K| was in it4-but.he colild assure th«tf9l that the question 6i thbj raifVv very live one with the .Government; itlM was not by;any means' dead, and tKj«i present Gbvernm'ent fould take eitdKu aor placing the jfint sum on jthe «on s{ «uction, and they iSIH ttendetf W cafry it througl In hlaeuiigM My af ((Mjnister for Railways he e««ffl easily sec that whate/er route «|1 finally chosen the 1 jio would be a BamM ,ing prdpbsitaon. The' \av fact ofvHIM enormoni;niimber of can etc, nMJiM iad; tljitj day gone t<f the Opunake nSfl demonslnalted that they were great dealjbf trafTic, and' the ITtkiiS&A Marsh trafn* alone.wotUd go a long'wߧ« towanh paying the ooH«H ',«■ - 3B ' A subsequent speaker Mr T. ««W)WB lrps.\brough,t --under the notice of WWM l Mirt,ster therelhad been *XM ■{.commission som>J(]B months 'since went into the quealion of route awjlal tookexhsustive evidence. He nnfrfaß that .the report framed on thia evio*ejMO.-J« slrould bo given due weight when ti»~im question came up for decieion. . jJfl The Mini.-:,.r «id that one aeettotjiS wanted one another a ateonOH route, and he"would not self to any statement tiw,«nbja«L-~.M