THE NORTH ISLAND TRUNK RAILWAY.
(To the Editor.)
S i r _i was pleased with your loading article'last night upon the allocation of the ml Son loan. You do well to condemn th» Sntral route. The people of this colony have not realised how much truth there is in your condemnation of the desert route. You say the agitation for the Central route 18 not yet extinct, but just wait a little loncer until its construction reaches the horrible country of the Ongaruhe, and you will see even our morning paper, which has changed front so often, will again turn a somersault and become disgusted with barren country. Heaven has not been kind to our province in the matter of soil, and for this reason we should be kind one to the other. Wo
be through this narrow fringe. That Is to say in the direction of Taranakl on the one side and from Rotorua to Opotiki and Gisborne on the other. To run a railway through 110 miles of barren country in our pumice zone, even If it is a central route, would be simply madness, and in the state of our finances would be a lasting injury to the people of this overtaxed colony. But in another year this matter will be better understood.—l am, etc.,
PETER OLIPHANT.
September 2, ISO 9.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 210, 5 September 1899, Page 8
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