A PROTEST FROM GISBORNE.
(PBXSS ASSOCIATION TKLEORAM.) ' January 31.. A puhlic meeting was held to-night re stoppage of jrailwav works. A resolution wae passed to the following effect:—"That this (meeting regrets the Government found it necessary, in order to keep -within, safe financial Jiajit*, to stop all vroxk opon tfhe Gis/borne-Karafca railway, and -urges., tzhat the work be. resumed at the earliest possible moment prudent finance will fallow y that wfoat. am emphatically needed in, dfoie- distriot are railroads to carry the produce of the interior to the ports; that jevery year valuable timber is'being destroyed which,, if reserved,.-would form a most "valuable, ooionial asset; that it is • matter requiring the ' greatest consideration, .before rolling sUxk is purchased -whether it would not be better even now to revert to #ie original proposal of the Hon. J. Carroll and convert the line and ite (future extension to A lieht railway in order to obtain ~a more rapid .extension than is'otherwise (possible ,j. tbat settlers in the inland distrjots are' urgently in need of t3» reHef witch railway oonw»tni«a>ti6n"W.oQld afford 1 , that *1» surVey to;tbe Motu should-be ipushed on with tie greatest possible desjpe&cb } tb»t tibe Crown, and native' land in the -interior should a proportion of the interest upon any special loan, required, to extend, toe line ac a main inland line beyond the Karaka."" ' " •■•'.■ .:
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11189, 1 February 1902, Page 9
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