ROTORUA-TAUPO RAILWAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1922, Page 11

ROTORUA-TAUPO RAILWAY.

iTn tbe Ko-.ior., Sir,- Mr. Xightingalo comp'a ns that the proposed railway lacks the advantage of joining the two larger cities In the Dominion. The only railway which can do that is already constructed: --but that is no reason why we should not build others. I claim thai the chief advantage which the Xorth Island Main Trunk railway conferred on the Dominion was not the facilities and advantages added tn the two terminal towns, but the creation of i series of larce and prosperous towns where nothing existed before Taihape, Ohakune. Te Kuiti. Tuuir-iriiiiui. el.'.. and the making of vast ami profitable agr'ett:ttiral districts nut of the antecedent nothingness. The same results will accrue from the opening up of the vmt area which the proposed railway will tap. It is to be hoped, for the sake of our national reputation for enterprise, that not many will agr c with our friend that "it will be hett'r for the district in question to 'be left unopened."' As to the "law nf rent." it would appear that Mr. Nightingale is a disciple of Henry (leorge and wants to sing the old sweet song of single tax. I have now neither space nor time to discuss the law of rent. Henry (ieorge correctiy quotes Picardo's law, hut applies it most falsely. I commend to Mr. Xightingalc"s study "Land and TU Rent," by Professor K. A. Walker. If perused with an open mind it will give him understanding.- -I am, etc.,

K. EARIjK VAILK. Prrs. Rotonia-Taupo Railway League.