BACKBLOCKS TRADE.
The Palmerston morning paper lias let the cat out of tlu> bag. it urges that the Pahiatua proposal for' a light-line railway to Pongaroa should be supported, on the ground that it would bring mor e trade to Palmerston This is one of the strongest objections that could be urged against the Pahiatua project. The interests of the Dominion and of the Pongaroa settlers .must be sacrificed to a spirit of parochialism. It may be urged that Masterton is advocating the loop-line to Waiptikurau with a similar motive to that of Palmerston. Masterton is doing no such thing. It wants to see the vast tracts of idle territory on the .East Coast brought into closer comimiunication with the natural markets, so that the Dominion, and in'cidentally the townships affected, may derive a benefit. The Pahiatua-Pon-garoa line is a parochial thing. The M.asterton-Waipukurau railway is a national undertaking.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 April 1913, Page 4
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149BACKBLOCKS TRADE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 April 1913, Page 4
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