NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 245, 13 October 1908, Page 2

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

S-Z.P.R.—We bare no doubt that the arrest "was made under wanstnt in' strict conformity with the law. Other.Tvise ihe accused has his legal remedy. 'UNIT.—We ate not'prepared. to-open, our discussion, of single tax. THE NORTH AUCKLAND TSTJNK KAILWAX. (To the EditarJ Sir, —The letters appearing in your paper advocating the mutilation of the Xorfch. Trunk Eailwa.2 have hitherto been passed over by those interested in the matter as being airworthy of being , taken seriously. But the reiterated misrepresentatKms require exposure, to show that they emanate from very biassed minds. Away on the West Coast the people always made use of steamer service, which suited them so well that they never took any interest in the League, let alone the question of route. With the approach of the railway, they now wish to deprive the settlers in the centre of the island of the only means in winter time' of getting tp market, by dragging the rail-way over to the water's edge, to give them a double service. The Bast Coast steamer service is an impossiWe one, and may be ignored. They raise lie bogey of there being three tunnels to construct on .the central route. 250 engineer has mentioned the necessity of them, but that is of no moment. They construct in a frivolous •way a bridge over the Otamatea, with an opening , span to allow of river traffic. But they construct it at a cost four , times below that estimated by "professional engineers. That they do not be quite frank, and take it to Matakohe, must be due to self-sacrifice on the part of the leaders of the agitation. They ignore the fact that the central route is by'Avay bf'a'iialural eterat&m, and thai it tops the first blraestone found north of Anekizmd. There is no suitable ballast to be found anywhere near their iu,uX3aliuu route. They shut their eyes to the fact that the central route will serve both sides of the island, and they seemingly wish to ignore the struggling eetifers in the centre, ! who hxve no outlet in the "Winter time, and no facilities for getting to and from town. Beyond Topuni bridge, the landslip country is passed, and for your correspondents' infoxmsSon, it should be made known that a railway ran along the central route, exEccSy beyond. Kaiwaka, for some years in the- timber time, and was never once blocked by any landslip, or anything else.—l am, etc, CE3EERAIj.