THE CAMBRIDGE RAILWAY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1737, 23 August 1883, Page 2

THE CAMBRIDGE RAILWAY.

Public Meeting at Cambridge, A mketixo of the settlers and inhabitants of Cambridge and district was held in the Public Hall on Tuesday evening last at 4 o'clock. There uas a fair attendance, and the chair was occupied by Commissioner Johnston, in the absence of Mr Wells. The Chairman, in opening the proceedings, said the question which they had been called upon to discuss hail been uppermost in the minds of the Cambiidge district public for some considerable time past, and one regarding which they one and all felt not a little uneasiness. The completion of the Cambridge branch railway, they were all fully aware, was immediately identified with their commercial welfaie and prosperity as an agricultural community. The meeting over which he had the honour to preside, he would state, had bepn called at the instance of the Tamahere Farmers' Club, which at its last meeting had passed a resolution, diawing the attention of the Government to the important matter then under review. The farmers, evidently, were fully alive to the sciious consequences of delay. In reply to a telegram forwarded by the tow n board to Mr J. B. Whyte oii the matter, that gentleman had said something to the effect that Government was going to complete the railway during the i ccess. They, would all agree with him that there was something unsatisfactory and unreasonably vague about this bald statement. During the recess might mean within a month, and it might mean within a twelvemonth. The people of Cambridge and di&tiiet wanted the railway finished before the coming harvest, and if the Government exerted themselves and were sincerely desirous pf promoting the welfare of the district, it would be- an easy matter for the Public Woi ks Department to have the line completed and opened by that time. Having explained the object of the meeting, he would like to hear an expression ot opinion from the meeting on the matter. Mr E. B. Walker then proposed the following resolution :— " That this meeting having been informed that the railway bridge across the Waikato at Hamilton ia neaily finished, would respectfully urge upon the Government the desirability of calling at once for tenders for the formation of the railway line to Cambridge, and also for laying the permanent way ; and would further desire to point out that if the above line were opened before harvest, the traffic on the main line would be considerably increased, and the receipts thereby augmented." Cr. Richardson having seconded the resolution, it was unanimously carried, ' Thpre being no other gentleman desirous of expressing his views on the question before the, meeting, the following supplementary resolution,, which was pioposed by Mr W. Reid and seconded by Cr. G. E. Clark, was unanimously ", carried :— V That a copy qf.the foregoing .repoliition ,be\ 'transmitted" iby* 'delayed .wire fro, Uh^^Ml^'^m^gi^

Minister for Public Works ; and that he l>e further desired to forward the reply of the Government thereto to the chairman of this meeting." The meeting then terminated.