WHAT GREY AND WAKEFIELD THINK.
Reefton, July 27.
Telegraphic replies have been received from Sir George Grey and Mr Wakefield, M.H.R.'s. The former, while professing friendliness to the West Coast in the matter of railway communication, cannot understand why the people expect him to consent to the children of the West Coast being robbed of their heritage by stock jobbers. He agrees, however, that the railway should be nearly constructed by this time.
Wakefield says that if he never sat in Parliament again he would oppose the present railway scheme to the bitter end. He states thac the syndicate business is a monstrous fraud upon the colony by which a ring of foreign speculators would get twice as much for making the railway as it should cost. He warmly approves of the construction of a railway. ...
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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5255, 29 July 1885, Page 2
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136WHAT GREY AND WAKEFIELD THINK. Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5255, 29 July 1885, Page 2
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