OUR NORTH ISLAND CENTRAL LINE.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 254, 29 October 1887, Page 2

OUR NORTH ISLAND CENTRAL LINE.

(To the Editor.)

Siß>—l quifie agree with the remarks of the " Otago Daily Times" that carrying the railway to Mar ton by what is called the central route, will prove tho greatest white elephant our Government have ever yet become possessed of, as well as add grievously to the burthen of debt and taxation we now eufler from, and none of our members

should be lukewarm on the "natter-" more especially any of our Auckland ones, and should there bo found one amongst them, as stated, that wishes to carry this line any further at present, he should never have a seat as our representative again. Let us by all means stop the railway a 0 Waititi for tho present, more especially as the "Times" says it will be the means of enormously curtailing the public works expenditure all over the colony by tho good example wo shall BO t ; and I would suggest that no more valueless lands be purchased beyond Waititi, and that the men now employed on the present contracts, when finished, shall be employed in m^ing road communication with Waitara, with the opportunities afforded them •of becoming settlers on the Crown lands we now possess at Awakino, Mokau, and tiie North of Waitara, as well as on other good lands that may hereafter be acquired.—l am, etc., T. B. HiLJJ.