THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1880.
Tee Thames people have good reason to growl at their scurvy treatment by the Government in the matter of the railway; indeed all the actions of. the present Government towards the Thames seems to be the result of a malicious desire to punish the people of this district for their support of the Grey Ministry. Not content with vetoing the construction of the Thames and Waikato line proper, they now, purpose administering another kick by the introduction of a bill empowering the expenditure of the £15,000 vote originally intended for the construction of the line from Hamilton to Morrinsville, on aline from Hamilton to Cambridge. One of the subterfuges adopted by. the Government in refusing us our railway was our "fine navigable river," and we cannot see by what system of logic they can justify the construction a line along the banks of the Waikato —perhaps the most navigable river in the colony, and especially that portion of it— and to connect two second rate country towns, while an important centre of population like the Thames is left out in the cold. The contract at present under weigh at the Waikato end was to extend the line from Hamilton to Morrinsvflle, which, though of no great benefit to this district, was bringing us nearer the railway system, and from a paragraph in the Public Works statement we have no doubt but that it was originally the intention of Government to carry out this work. After tbe.se peripatetic noodles, the Hail way Commissioners had intruded their baneful presence on us, a slight change took place in the intentions of the Government, for further on in the Statement we find the following paragraph :— "The question of the propriety of constructing the Waikato-Thames Bail way has; been raised by the Commissioners, who have recommended that it should at present be completed only to: the junction with the projected Cambridge line, and that the Cambridge-section of eleven miles should be substituted. The Government intend to havo the subject very carefully investigated with a view to determine which proposal will, be most beneficial to the country, and will act accordingly. The vote will therefore be proposed in the alternative." The members of the Government have evidently made our railway a political question.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3641, 27 August 1880, Page 2
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391THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1880. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3641, 27 August 1880, Page 2
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