LIGHT RAILWAY LINES.
We cannot understand the position taken up by the Opposition in regard to the measure introduced by the Government to facilitate the opening up of the country by means of light line railways. It is admitted that, at the present moment, railway communication with the backblocks districts of the North Island is urgently needed. It is also admitted that it is impossible" ft>r the Government to find a sufficient sum of money to provide railways of the standard gauge wherever they are required. Although, on the general principle, it may not be in the beet interests of the country* that private and narrow gauge lines should be constructed, it is nevertheless a fact that the development of the internal resources demands that private enterprise should be called to the assistance of . the Government. The Opposition, by endeavouring to obstruct a measure that is flestined to bring relief to back-blocks settlers, is really striving to impede the progress of the Dominion and to block Settlement for party political purposes.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 12 November 1913, Page 4
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171LIGHT RAILWAY LINES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 12 November 1913, Page 4
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