RIMUTAKA INCLINE.
A NEW ROUTE WANTED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. A deputation, numbering 350 persons, representing 43 local, public, and business bodies, came down from Wairarapa thiß morning to urge upon the Premier and the Minister of Public Works the necessity of immediately making a deviation of the railway over the Rimutaka range. The first speaker said that fifty years ago they were unhappily married to thfc city by means of the Rimutaka incline. To-day they applied for a divorce. They asked for a decree nisi, and hoped that something absolute would be done in three months. x Mr. Massey, in reply, said the survey of the work for/which they asked had been placed on the list of urgent surveys some time ago, and that Would be done at the earliest possible moment. Then would come the question of ■ the Selection of the route, over which he advised them not to fight. When the route was decided on they would have to ask Parliament for authorisation, and if he was at the helm he promised them there would be no delays. This awful piece of line could not go on for ever; it must come to an end.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 August 1920, Page 5
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200RIMUTAKA INCLINE. Taranaki Daily News, 20 August 1920, Page 5
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