THE SOUTH ISLAND MAIN TRUNK LINE.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 13938, 11 January 1911, Page 11

THE SOUTH ISLAND MAIN TRUNK LINE.

:%_/-. *; -" ' - ♦ %-/-r (-FECIAL TO "THB PRESS.") .#..■- _' BLENHEIM, January 10. ;f;X»-re is & growing feeling here that " , '^*i TCl _' great pressure will be resgttfcd" to be brought to bear upon the «Ms*nwnt before the South Island .PaiO." Trunk line is pushed on more and in proportion with its ■.JfeMrtance.' The "Express," in the :!_?-?*. '■ !_?-?*. of , a leading article published .-Weight, says:—'.'The people of the .«gw ure not asked to agree that the 'S*. 1 " land M -* in Tru nk l»no is tho j*m important in the Dominion. Wriat .;tB-;seonto of Marlborough and Canter-'-S?s?'■_*-* «-* the Government to reAMD* the promises made by the late ; $* Swdon, by Sir William Hall-Jones, . «« by Sir Joseph Ward, that after tho «_>tap et on of the North Island Main „_T?nk «no the Southern Trunk would pushed on till the- ends !*« Joined. Performance still limps -*_ P y after *> r "°Kiise, and in the »«»time other lines—local lines many ot Mem—are being rapidly constructed. '-_• • ese othec lmes were likely to prove as the South Island ■-_£ * hnC 'J h * re couM °* - ittlc objec- '__ -*? ? n ._ h,m ?. tnete on »*■ an equal ']£_, »._* **" a lon C time before ;.«««* of the Northern lines pay for 3gra- than fcxJe grease. For Mr Mc«S„- t0 • , com Pare Marlborough's ! S__?V? n ir - th that *--"■-» w -» -« -tVXBttL J 5-" w . a - v construction in the ?_E n P ""' ,nc *' » beside the ques- __, $**? «J er : Tho South Island BP_? U,lk W wa y » * nation£ -l line. ►S^n^l 1 -, but Cttnterburv rJ_fc_i' *M» its .indirect effect will be l«& o St^fft , r d ----,- MrMc:: -i" nt loCst that Sti? t! » Mwlborough district .Snft*, kl "-- tbc Government's nc_;----l«V0* their interests lying down."