THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 206, 29 August 1905, Page 3

THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.

DEPUTATION TO THE PREMIER. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Monday. A large deputation from Canterbury md the West Coast waited on the Premier this afternoon, and urged upon the Government the necessity for pushing on with the completion of the Midland railway, and in particular the anvisableless of letting a contract for the construction of the Summit tunnel. Sevt sal members of Parliament accompanied tie deputation. The burden of the speeches was that tie through line should be completed at &ft earliest possible moment, so that it should become reproductive. MrSeddon said that, taking '.nto consideration the amount of revenue contributed by Canterbury aud the West C°ast, those parts of the eoleny had 'eally a stronger claim to expenditure ""pnolie works that any other p jrtion i New Zealand. He admittid that the in favour of completing the fee were overwhelming, and that the *"i ought to be gone on with more Only" v certain amount "flhaney would be available for public * t *ts, but he was not anxious on the aad there would be fair allocag- While there should be fair alloea|phowever, he would say that, taking "te small expenditure on the Midland ■tilway in the past compared with the ?!% on the Otago Central a-d the ?«ta Island Main Trunk lines, if there l^ 3 a little more this year for the Midthe most fastidious could not SSntJain. It was not askins too much "have the line finished within the next *years. It was not known what difmight be met with in boring ptonnel, and he thought if the work completed in six years it would be as much as could be done. that when the l'ne was |?f§ n it would prove one of the best ?Piig sections in the colony. The took occasion to apologise for of the Minister for Public J*j*s, who was bus/ putting 'he nntouches en the Public Works s *tement