ROADS AND BRIDGES FIRST.
MINISTER'S REPLY TO RAI!.WAY DEPUTATION. ; Dunedin. Nov. 22. Replying to a joint iKquttatrnn representing the Dunedin Expansion League, the Otago t - :!r;il Ba:'.a ay League, and the Lawrence-Rox-burgh Railway- League waited upon [ (he Hon. W. Fraser urging the ‘claims of Otago v. itli regard to ‘ railway and other matters, the Minister expressed -yuipatl-v with the object <>f the deputation, but ■-pointed out that the present was not the right lime to urge the matters laiel before him. having in view the urgent ntcessiiy in various parts of '■ : he colony for the const ruet ion of roads itP'i Lrniges. He had found it :r.-i < t-> em-tail railway expendil;;re by about £2 ,| o.o , 'i'. but lie bed been i.i’taining advice from tlie i Eng::.c. :* in I l.u f of Railways as to Ulhe v<>nst i’uet :on of a light line up ? A'ri'ii’.Wi-l! tlijrge. and he found that I -ml) a line could be i-onsirueted for ; to.in) per mile. v. berea.- the 'standard lines c-'st from .'N.'*") to
[ Cld.O’JO per mile. He was not in : position to commit the Governinem to any definite promise, but Mr Massey would be in Dunedin shortl; j and would probably be able to speal with more authority.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 300, 23 November 1912, Page 3
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