A SOUTHERN PROTEST.
The Marlborough Express admits the necessity for the deviation of the Bimntaka railway and for the East Coast line, but it urges that the Govenuient has ne right to pledge itself to new and elaborate schemes of rail-, way construction until the Main Trunk lines are put through. . We a degree of sympathy with; out; southern friends.; The railway be- : tweein Picion and Ohmtchurch would have been completed long ago if the Continuous Ministry had not wasted its substance on co-operative and other idiosyncracies. But, ■nwh as we sympathise with the south, we have a still more profound sympathy for those settlers, who are isolated in the baokblecks of tie north, and whose hearts are beina broken hy
the vicissitudes 0 f colonisation. These heroic timo and that they will be given access the markets, and the Government | s under a moral obligation to re^ eem that promise at the very opportunity.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 6 June 1913, Page 4
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155A SOUTHERN PROTEST. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 6 June 1913, Page 4
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