EVENING SITTING.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1916, 16 October 1884, Page 2

EVENING SITTING.

The House resumed at 7. 50. The debate on the motion for going into Committee on the E.ist and West Coast (Middle Island) and Nelson Railway Bill was continued by Mr Hatch, who supported the bill. Mr Reese strongly supported the bill. Mr Fergus opposed it, and argued that the Hug would not, owing to the steepness of the grades, be capable of carrying heavy loads, and these would go by water. The line might do well, however, for passengers and light merchandise. The railway wa, not wat>^d, and he would oppose it at every stage. Messrs Seddon and Huisthouse supported the bill, but the latter did not consider that the rulway was necessary to open markets for West Coast pioduce. What he objected to in the bill was that Government were to take over poitions of the railway as com pleted, and Government were to hand to the company 40 per cent of the revenue collected. He would move t.> have this pi o vision altered '"hen in Committee. If that line was to be constiuetcd, it v.is unnecessary to spend the £150,000 on the Greymouth Harbour, and when the second reading of this Gieymonth bill came forward, he would move that it be read six months hence. This railway would not, in his opinion, pay interest on the cost of construction for the next 25 year-., neither would the Otago Central Railway, nor the North Island Main Trunk Line, but as the House was favourable to doing woik, he thought it better to go on with all three. Sir Of. Gicy objected to giving such a vast extent of territory for the construction of the railway. The land was to be given for half the value of the railway, but it would when the line was completed increase in value two-f>>ld. Ths Premier had until iii-w always urged that the land should belong to the people, but was he not destroying those pnnciples which he valued so much by foicing on the House this bill ? No one, he uiged, could tell the mineral value of these lands until the forest had been cleared off. His opinion was that the land would be found of considerable worth. The people had not had an opportunity to raise their voices against the bill, and he had never heard of greater tyranny than this measure. The effect of handing this land over to foreign companies would not be to dri\e miners away fiom the colony, as had been stated, but to reduce their wages so low that it would be a bare subsistence. He was determined to prevent the passing of the bill in its present form to the best of hia ability, and he called on the West Coast membcis to help him. The latter had now got their harbour, which greatly enhanced the value of these lands, and they should resist to the utmost their being handed over to strangers. If the bill was to pass it would impose great cruelty on the whole country. He had been told that there would be no more measure of this kind brought forward. He did not believe it, and if this one got through he should hear of others. How wa* it this session that everything was to be done by companies. The whole thing, to his mind, was " .stock jobbing," as it were from end to cud ; and this was what was called financing! This grasping of lands appeared nothing to some hon. members, but while the poor c'a^ses were struggling to gain possession of a fewaciua, they handed over million-) of acres to foreign powers. Land should not be handed over in this manner, but the measure, should be postponed till ne\t session, and by that time the people of the colony would have had time to express their vet diet upon it. He would use all available means to defeat it. Mr Downie Btewait opposed the bill. Mr Garnck strongly suppoited the bill. Mr Peacock did not see why this railway should be placed on a different fooling to other railways, and in Committee he would endeavour to have it altered. Left Sitting.)

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