"THE SOUTH ISLAND BIG JOKE."
In your issue of the 28th.- ult. you give ■prominence to an interview with. Mr. N. G. Gribble, secretary of the New Zealand Lanil. Settlement and Development League, and I suppose that his opinion on the completion of the Southern Main Trunk line is'reckoned to be of value. It certainly shows up the New Zealand civil engineers as incompetent if the construction is anything like his description, which I personally beg to doubt. But why should the people of this country visit this particular work to see the scattering of. their hard-earned money, when there is Government work nearer afield that millions of public money have been spent on, and more must follow, and then, at tlie beet, we will only have a patched job that may show further weakness at any time? To build any railway to-day is ridiculous, for those that are in existence are a menace. Out legislators cannot see the farce, or will because of votes. VERITAS. "
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 286, 3 December 1930, Page 6
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