THE OPUNAKE RAILWAY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LII, Issue 9187, 6 September 1906, Page 5

THE OPUNAKE RAILWAY.

DtSCUSSTON" BY THE HARBOR BOARD. At Tuesday's meeting of, the! Patea'Har'bOr^Boar/i a letter was read ■fexm, J Opunake Railway League ailvismg^that g..de 'pittatidn would viuatr Wellingtor shortly, arid-a sking fiip Board if t^ey were in sympathy to appoint! a. delegate. '' "Mr Davids6n thought the question' .vfea one v?hioh mat^rii^yaffe^ed.tte Bioixl. l haii^beeii\^st'\rj^m ! t4» port of 'Patea and tK& 'grading works, ai>d .te ooniridered ! t3ie : reipafka maile' by Mr' Diye and' btibej-'Opeakefs^at" thfe' nieetft^ of the ;;Mfrfcttwfc}Froe«ng'>Wbrl& Oo?, 1 ?^""!!!^- and /! unw?&ni»ted! <! ,%«&? w4e 7 .a tiime when ' the -Pali» poH w&a^'v^ry small, ettd Oiis"hd<J pafliea. Trade ; had grown, 'and if tiey wTsliM ti> ittt'rease ' trasincss •tKe^ m^ strive- to Vt;^'OptenaKe ti&e -in6de aa-heaif 3 sdttte. " ; ' Bb'-movMf'Tifet^^ieP oiaattrtto ,be apptimte^ to BcWd on tSe ' --Mi- Sutton,-in s^ottffiiif tW-reebK*?CiS, ii'v^ry'ne^a*^ ttiat Pkeß^KffdM 'take in /-4^ - op^*,, line-; T^ehtrance to the^Pftlfe^port^liiJd greftttyimproVed;' andnte sttrr*"c&sb £p"8n v it da imwrfrHntebk.'<"fie t&ugM ? it' w brfir'r^h't''''tiuat -She^Seara 'snould'atoik any movetrient' With tbfe-db-jeot of llaviilg-a'siiin ofinonsy placed 'dn the ' fes&maW-to the Opncake Koe •td-^iStftuSfciofttei.' 1^ " : rfr -^ '*'* '- ' MrVßo63iiter'a^K*d with the neso&ution. Pafea !^ad been 1 taking an inter*** in tße irfatW/'aad Jfe'-tljoag!hC'it'-b&43» Board's 'lntereSfcft thAt. they "should co-operate with ■witn^OpunaiEe. * He advocated TWaty? .in South T»ranaki. They, wje forced -thsOT^i the action taken, by tSfeft n«rfeherm>fagb.bors to fight, and;if fluey, wea» /united in asking the Government -to build t&e line their, chances of, scouring it would be .greater. - ,- . - ;n; n Mr Johnston thought -it ,was nonsense taking any notice of the remarks: of Mi Dive or the' other speakers. The whole trouble was that the Patea. works had been so successful. He referred to fa statement iby the Chairman at tho Hawera Dairj ' Company meeting that Moturoa Work"! could freeze at Id a box cheaper than I Patea as absurd. Mr Dive was a direotoi I of the Motnroa Worka, and therefore his attitude could bo understood. Thb Chairman predicted that the lin< would be a paying one, and that it woult come about within a few years. » The resolution wafi put and cairned.— Press.

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