RAILWAY MATTERS.
TV Palmerston .North newspapers freely admit that the Wairarapa suffers a hardship through the Riiimtaka railway. The Manawaitu Times says that the deviation is a matter of urgency,, "for it affects the prosperity of a very large and rich district, and retardation of this character means loss to the whole colony." It is when our fnends approach the larger railway scheme for opening up the Kast Coast that they become parochial. Palmerston North can only see one economical method of giving tlx;' Pongaroa settlers access to Wellington, and that is by constructing a light-line railway from Pahiatua, which would necessarily convey the trade to Palmerston. We do not blame either Palmorston or Pahiatua for viewing the matter from a parochial standpoint. They have always in view the main chance. But, if they would sink their own selfish schemes and go for a national undertaking they would' the better serve the interests of the Dominion, and incidentally, those of th. 1 backblocks settler.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 20 May 1913, Page 4
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164RAILWAY MATTERS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 20 May 1913, Page 4
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