OUR RAILWAYS.
So accustomed has our Southern Administration been to unprofitable railway projeccs and to the spectacle of costly lines that do rot pay, that the instantaneous success of the Main Trunk is ascribed by the bewildered Mr Mii Jar to its "novelty," says the Auckland "Herald." It does not occur to him that the Main Trunk pays because it was needed, and that if the Government confined itsel tj building much-needed lines in the North—at the same time opening the locked-up lands so clamoured for by settlers—it would find every line paying from the beginning.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3192, 18 May 1909, Page 4
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96OUR RAILWAYS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3192, 18 May 1909, Page 4
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