Otago Central.
PLEA FOR IRRIGATION AND FAIR TREATMENT. Messrs G. M. Thomson and W. Eraser, speaking on the Imprest .Supply Bill in the House on Friday night put in a word or two for the Otago Central Railway. The former said the country served had a very small rainfall, but with irrigation it could be made extremely fertile and remunerative.
Mr Eraser complained of the delay in running the trains. Three and a half hours, he said, were spent at stations, and trains might be started earlier to meet the convenience of settlers instead of commercial travellers, who got up late in the morning. As to the cost of tbe hue, money had been absolutely wasted. Miles and miles could have been cheaply formed with the plough, the scoop, and the grader, but wheelbarrows and shovels were used instead. He once more urged that tbe Government should take in hand the matter of irrigation. If Government set its mind to this matter Central Otago would become a large and prosperous settlement, and tbe Otago Central line, instead of being the ugly duckling, would become the white swan of the New Zealand railways.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 2210, 29 August 1910, Page 4
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