WASTED RAILWAYS.
In refusing the request of a Canterbury deputation to run extra trains on the Rakaia-Methven line, Mr Millar is consistently following out the principle which the Premier has already laid down for Ministerial guidance. Possibly it would be a convenienc to the district to have an additional train, but what the Minister for Railways has to consider is the relation of the required outlay to the general interest of the country, and the probability that the experiment would prove commercially a success. If the rest of the- Dominion were thorughly roaded and well provided with railway lines, we would not pbiect so strongly to the unfinancial lines in the £outh, remarks the "Auckland Star," but, considering the condition of the North Island and the" splendid prospects of increasing the revenue by railway construction here, it seems to us altogether unreasonable to expand more upon southern lines that have already provedjto be "losers," and we hope tha*: the policy adopted with the Lawrence Roxburgh line, and in a minor degree with the Rakaia-Methven branch, will be rigorously and consistently carried into effect.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3194, 20 May 1909, Page 4
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183WASTED RAILWAYS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3194, 20 May 1909, Page 4
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