POLITICAL SNIPING
THE SOUTH ISLAND LINE A REFORM PASTIME [FIIOM Oun rAULIAMENTAKY ItCPOliTElt.] WELLINGTON, August 10. Speaking of the South..lsland Main ! I'r unit Railway in relation to the ailvisabilitv of completing the WharnnuiPafnasshs pap, M r Broad foot (Waitomo) said he felt that the work should bo gone on with and the line finished, because it meant the filling of .an. essential gap in the ■main trunk batikbone of railways. Thero_ appeared to bo a pastime called “ sniping,” said Mr Broadfoot, and - some members on the other side of the House were very fond of: it when this subject was under discussion. ■'Mr Nash (Palmerston North); 1 shall go on sniping. (Laughter.) Mr Broadfoot said there were those who could do nothing but snipe, and they were 'not very effective, because their ammunition was “ dud.” “How do you snipe a railway?” queried Mr Howard, from the Labour benches, but Mr Broadfoot thought it time to leave (bo subject. _ Me said New Zealand should rationalise its transport system, and take a lesson from Canada, where long lines of railways bad been made to pay handsomely, despite the gloomy prognostications of pessimists in the early days.
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Evening Star, Issue 20256, 17 August 1929, Page 26
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194POLITICAL SNIPING Evening Star, Issue 20256, 17 August 1929, Page 26
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