GISBORNE’S ISOLATION

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 July 1933, Page 3

GISBORNE’S ISOLATION

NEED FOR- REDUCTION. [per press association.] GISBORNE, July 3. An outspoken view on the disability of Gisborne was expressed to-day by Mr Thomas Jordan, Mayor of Masterton, and a member of the Transport Appeal Board, now sitting here. “Gisborne’s isolation is deplorable,” he said, “and the place is deserving of much better means of commiinication than it has at present.” He thought that the hundred square miles of rich, flat land outside Gisborne should be turned into dairying. He noticed that much of it was still carrying sheep. Such a rich district should not be Isolated as it was, and it was deplorable that it should have to remain so. He did not wish to he drawn into the controversy regarding railway or other means of transport, but the district was deserving of better means of communication than it had at present. “We are spending four million per annum on the unemployed,” added Mr Jordan, “and there is little return from this. Some of this money might with advantage be employed in reducing Gisborne’s isolation.”