STRATFORD STATION.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 February 1920, Page 3

STRATFORD STATION.

PROPOSAL TO SHIFT IT. PUBLIC MEETING'S ACTION. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Stratford, Last Night. A well attended public meeting was held in the Town Hall to-night for the purpose of placing before the citizens the position in regard to the selection of the site of the new railwnv station. The Mayor (Mr. J. W. McMillan) presided, and Messrs. R. Masters, M.P., J. B. Richards (chairman of the Chamber of Commerce), and W. P. Kirkwood (President of the Railway League) addressed the meeting. The speakers explained that the Railway Department had made a strong recommendation in favor of adopting the southern site in preference to the northern site, and at the conference with the departmental officers this course was unanimously agreed upon. The following resolution, moved by the Mayor and seconded by Mr. C. D. Sole, was carried unanimously: "That this public meeting of Stratford citizens endorses tho action of the Borough Council, Chamber of-Commerce Executive, Railway League Executive, and lessees of railway reserves, in agreeing with the Railway Department to shift the station and goodsheds to the site selected in the vicinity of Warwick Road at the southern end of the town." It was also decided that further matters in connection with the remcrval of the station should be left to the three organisations mentioned with power to deal with the Department. After a discussion on the possibilities of the Main Trunk railway.it was resolved that the Government be urged to push on with the Stratford-Okahu-kura railway at once.