RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION POLICY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9644, 9 November 1909, Page 4

RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION POLICY.

Since receiving the deputation representing the Masterton-Wafpuku-rau Railway League early last week, the Minister for Public Works has had the pleasure of hearing the claims of yet another deputation. We refer to the one which interviewed him on Saturday last, in regard to the proposed Waiuku railway. As already pointed out in these columns, although the claims respecting our own district were well and fairly put the net result was not very satisfac • tory. The answers were indefinite, the Minister showing an inclination to enlarge generally about most or-' dinary facts concerning railways. The deputation on Saturday were similarly unsuccessful in their quest, and the suggestion ot the Minister that they should establish an oil motor service on their own account as a substitute for a railway was most refreshing in its originality. Apart from this, however, the deputation succeeded in extracting some most interesting remarks upon the future railway building policy. The Minister pointed out that he had submitted a list to Cabinet of no fewer than fortysix lines of a total mileage of 11,000 or 12,000 miles, at a coat of twelve millions. All these were wanted in different parts of the country. The I

Government was going to concentrate its attention upon the North Auckland and East Coast lines, and he did not think that a Railways Authorisation Bill would be brought down this session.