HORNBY-BELFAST RAILWAY
Sir,—The member for Selwyn has often protested against the building of a railway from Hornby to Belfast through the best of dairying .and market gardening land. As the new housing areas are developed, hundreds of acres of the best land are already going out of production. The new line would cause further loss by attracting new factory buildings and other industries, with new residental areas, numerous roads, etc. Why not use the strip of poor land close by? How are we to keep up our export of butter and cheese and feed an ever-increas-ing population on a decreasing acreage of our heaviest land? Canterbury has only a coastal fringe of this class of land. Could not Federated Farmers and other, sections of the community support Mr McAlpine?—Yours, etc., RETIRED FARMER. September 22, 1948.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25607, 23 September 1948, Page 2
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