RIMUTAKA LINE

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 133, 9 June 1930, Page 11

RIMUTAKA LINE

DEVIATION WORK

INTERESTING A MINISTER

(Special to "The Evening Post.")

MASTERTON, This Day. -Brief but interesting references to the Bimutaka deviation were made when the Hon. E. A. Hansom, Minister of Lands, met district representatives on Saturday. The Mayor of Masterton (Mr. T. Jordan) said that if the Minister had still been holding the portfolio he held recently, he (Mr. Jordan) would have mentioned the Rimutaka deviaiioii. Ho understood ou very good authority that something was to be done very shortly by Mr. Bansom 'a successor in office, and that this very important work would be put in hand at an early date. As , Mr. Ransom was concluding his speech without referring to the matter, Colonel T. W. M'Donald, M.P., interjected '.-'Don't forget about the Rimutaka deviation."

Mr. Ransom said he was not Minister of Public Works now. He had been "driving holes through hills" for the last eighteen months. He had heard that a big deputation was going down to Wellington, but that it was not taking the Pipe Band this time.

A voice: "Tho big stick this time-!" Mr. Ransom said that, any way of reducing the working costs of a railway and making it more efficient was worth considering. He himself, ho added, seldom travelled north through the Wairarapa because he lost an hour bydoing so. Mr. Jordan: "Think of us, then!"