AT LAST!
The North Island Main Trunk Line of Railway is nearly completed at last Very soon a body of noble legislators, who draw large salaries from the peoples' pockets for looking after the interests of the people, are going to travel in State, or something like it, over the North Island Main Trunk Line, to convince themselves —we should say -that the line is really, practically, completed. To anyone who has taken any interest in the history of the line, it is almost impossible to believe that the work is about completed. It well-nigh passes the bounds of human credulity to believe that in the time of the present Government the work of connecting the railways of Wellington and Auckland has been accomplished. The Hon. W. Hall-Jones, however, is a humourist of a rare type, as evidenced the othc-day when he informed Parliament that the work would be finished five months earlier than he anticipated. "Five months earlier" —why if the present Government had pushed on the work at a rate at all commensurate with its importance, it would have been finished live years ago at least!
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9160, 6 August 1908, Page 4
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188AT LAST! Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9160, 6 August 1908, Page 4
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