THE WELLINGTON FARMERS' MEAT FREEZING WORKS SITE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9581, 30 August 1909, Page 5

THE WELLINGTON FARMERS' MEAT FREEZING WORKS SITE.

To the Editor. Sir,—"A Resident" (at Featherston) appears to have quite a number of tickets on the Pigeon Bush site,and must be commended fcr the assiduous manner in which he battles in the interest of that portion of the Wairarapa where gentle breezes blow. Now, sir, there is just one contin gency which ''A Kesident" and others who are in accord with hiy views may have overlooked when advocating the southern site, viz., the abandonment of the Rimutaka line of railway from the Woodsidc-Gre'y-. town junction over the hill, in favour of a deviation via the Tauherenikau route. Such a contingency is no dream, for on more than one occasion the subject ha 3 been under consideration by the Government, and | no doubt will eventually come to puss, j and in the interests of the peneral , public the sooner the better, for i though the Rimutaka Incline is a splendid object lesson in engineering skill, and an ideal example of where nut to locate a railway line, it is a veritable "bete noir" to all kinds of traffic. Should the construction of the Tauherenikau deviation eventuate it would certainly place Bush in '• the background as a site for freezing works. Maryborough would then probably be connected by rail with the Grey-town-Woodside junction, while Featherstoti and Pigeon Bush would be left out in the cold, a fate almost too awful to contemplate.— j 1 am, etc., I FARMER.