RAILWAY NEEDED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 191, 15 August 1933, Page 9

RAILWAY NEEDED.

GISBORNE TO NAPIER. REPRESENTATIVE MEETING. « UNASSAILABLE RIGHTS." (By Telegraph.—jPross Association. , ) WAIROA, Monday. One of the most representative meetings in the history of Wairoa was held to-day for the purpose of considering the memorandum received from the acting-Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, concerning the NapierGisborno railway. Those present included four members of Parliament, Messrs. K. S. Williams (Bay of Plenty), D W. Coleman (Gisborne), W. E. Barnard (Napier) and H. M. Campbell (Hawke's Bay), also the Mayors of Hastings, Napier, Wairoa and Gisborne, and 200 others.

After a lengthy discussion it was unanimously decided to set up a committee to secure definite facts and figures to place before the Government. By this means it is hoped to make the district's right to railway facilities unassailable. Finance for the investigation is also to be arranged and the results of later deliberations are to bo placed before the Government, showing the necessity for completing the line and prospects of definite revenue returns when the line is completed. When satisfactory terms are granted by the Government a committee is to arrange for the necessary finance to complete the line.