THEN AND NOW
It is recorded by Mr. Wood, of Shannon, one of the earliest settlers ,on tho coast, that the first Commission (ap« pointed in Sir George Grey's time) ■ to report upon the proposal to construct & railway from Wellington to Palmerston, via Foxton, travelled up from Wellington by the coast and went on to Woodvilie. At Palmerston they were banquetted, and they then returned homo, via Foxton. They made no attempt to penetrate the country now tapped by the railway line, and when they returned to Wellington they reported that there was' no land between Foxton and Wei* lington of any productive quality likely to justify the existence of a raihVay there; that the proposal would not pay. They said that the average number of travellers by coach per day to and. from Wellington _ through Foxton was about three, and it would not pay the Government to cater for such a Binall number with a railway.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 147, 23 June 1915, Page 12
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157THEN AND NOW Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 147, 23 June 1915, Page 12
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