POLITICAL SNIPING.
SOUTH ISLAND AIAJN TRUNK RAILWAY. (Bv Telegraph—Special to the Star.) WELLINGTON, Aug. IG. Speaking of tlie South Island main trunk railway in relation to the advisability of completing the WharanuiParnassus gap, Mr. W. J. Broadfoot (Waitomo), in the House of Representatives to-day, said that he felt the work should be gone on with and tho line finished, because it meant the filling of an essential gap in the main trunk backbone of railways. There appeared to be a pastime called “sniping,” said Air. Broadfoot, and some members on the other side of the House were very fond of it when this subject was under discussion Air. J. A. Nash (Failure,ston North): I shall go on sniping. Air. Broadfoot said that 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 Air. Howard from the. Labour cross benches, but Air. Broadfoot thought it time to leave the subject. He said that New Zealand should nationalise its transport system and take a lesson from Canada, where long lines of railway had been made to pay handsomely. despite gloomy prognostications of pessimists in the early days.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 17 August 1929, Page 9
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