MASTERTON-WAIPUKURAU RAILWAY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10672, 19 July 1912, Page 6

MASTERTON-WAIPUKURAU RAILWAY

MOVEMENT IN HAWKE'S BAY. > At a •■iiiciti'iig of farmors and .others aiitorestod in the dairying industry, held «.t Waiife'toad on Friday last, 'wlnen i'b was decided to establish a cheese ifnctory in. the district, the chairman, iMr C. O. Smith, referred to tho long-talked-c.f Mia-sterton-Wai-pukurau railway. The subject, he eaid, so fur as the. suttlcirs in the Wan-stead district were concerned, hud been in, abeyance for isome time, : Vmt he thought the time was opporj tune to give it a frc-sih start. He I ipoinltcd cut that there were several vjcctic-r.;-. of the community ag:tating to have lines started'between M.asterton 'and Wa-ipukurau, each advocating a different tcirinmrl point, any one of which would practically lea.ve the Wan-stead district out in the cold. He .theugiht there v.-fas no question as to tho propei" route, which, to hh .mind, w.as from Mastcrtoii to Wai-' \ .pukurau, cJK-Ii advocating a different point, any one of which | would practically -'.cave the Wanstead ■d'etd-ict out. in tile cold. He thought ■there wa.s r.'o- q-iuvitinn >as to the proper rente, -which,. ito 1 Iris mind, was from Aiastcrton to .Wbipukurau, aunmI dng (between 'the coast nnd the Puketoi range. This: route would bring 'the Ibulk cf the land lying between the coast r;fvd the ra.ivge 'within easy djataniee cf the .railway, wn.d he would, have much pleasure in proposing that ■representation .bo made to tho Waipukarrau people imx! the .people -of the '(.ourrouuding district -with the view of Vtaking -cor.-c-ertc-d action for the'pur- ' p:x=e of airging vno.n. the Government . j'the neeeissity of inking the matter inIto serious consideration. The motion ; was c.-eo-nded Iby Mr T. Nut and car- . ried ,unanimou<i!y.