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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1466, 29 May 1905, Page 2

A correspondent, indignant at a statement that the Bay of Plenty Railway League is dead, writes to the Auckland Herald :—“ This Ohiwa Opotiki railway is asked for and to strengthen it 3 claim for consideration from, and its ultimate construction by the Government, ‘it is characterised, as being and will eventually become a portion of the main East Coast railway system, connecting Gisborne and Rotorua via Opotiki, or Gisborne Waihi via Opotiki and Tauranga. This is exactly what the committee of the Bay of Plenty Railway League have in hand. This League was formed over two years ago, at a public meeting held in the Town Hall, when there assembled a gathering of close on 400 people, amongst whom was W. H. Harries and Hone Heke AC. H. R.’s, | and of lesser lights not a few, and it has j justified its creation and continued existence over and over again ; and for two or three people to band themselves together, aud have the assurance to write and tell the Government that the Bay of Plenty Railway League is defunct, or to put it in plainer words telling the Government that the people living in tjbe Opotiki County have no further desire for the Gisborne Rotorua, or Waihi via Opotiki railway connection shows plainly that the advocates of the true interests of the Opotiki County are not found amongst those who daily and hourly may be seen sitting on iiurch street door ate