THE THAMES-WAIKATO RAILWAY.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1662, 1 March 1883, Page 2

THE THAMES- WAIKATO RAILWAY.

.iK< \' ' THE EDITOR., kJM * < j ■Strt— One of the all£gYd~ad vantages of direct taxation is that it stirs public opinion to look * afteV -We expenditure, and this being about the time for the periodical plunder by the general Government for property tax, it may not be inopportune to take this, the only advantagcJ.uve- in I the . Thanies 1 'Valley are favoured with, and ask when the railway will be completed from the Thames to Waikato. It is now nearly five years since the work received Parliamentary wpkftffao u %-<ibo #njtetf (Stktes;xy^e.Ven elsewhere, private enterprise would have made it in twelve, months, but our Government has been dawdling on, getting no return for money already, expended, retarding' tM progress of the country and ruining the settlers by taking theirmoney and lands under false pretences of giving them a railway. In Canterbury and Otago completed railways, which the colony pays for^'have' 1 gtveh •'prosperfty, aT ?& ft,, ren ?a rk atoef advancement f , jn material wealth 1 and value, while here tyi;o,perty ( cauno,tb i e l ,solfl )/ at much, ')$& than the values put on it for taxation purposes, if at all. Auckland , in l^ilwaya is treated a<ia' I conquei / ed'pro'vinde, aa the last joint in- -the tail into wliM as far as the oityof -Auckland, while I^sn--dei4/areJvi^6TD\islyi '(Jailed fo^kt/A Wa'hch d'ailviu^ in>Cahtieriiui;y'ai'e' ! puaih'ed 'oh tj to 'completioffifS^^pUa^' may*'be£ i ignVehdiig'M ' 'but>,wl»y dcfe^feu^^^Ndrtli&Mand-'Minfst ' ■4ryS)ndi eitbe^filifeh'J tbW /HamJltdn-Wil- j fit fpr, traffa'c,;or abandon it, and^tiHSli f oii| •fciK»tf(fi^i/Jiiaplri l oiBAVihfe?in'a^V'A and^o;uld;t69|.l^te >th¥^£i(l%Hdtf« ;^/«}V^)Jjerj^ni^er^|intl if $% ijgo T

nost important .fJiitWd^in the NorfcHl [sland,* if not in the -colony, then, like ihould rote according to the interests of ;heir constitbehts'iffi-sfc^'Arta^hen after that oj,panty r -Ypi|ia truly,