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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 23 May 1919, Page 8

A conference of representatives of local bodies and producers' organisation of Nelson province decided to urge the Government to commence the construction of the Midland railway from Grlenhope; to give Nelson representation in the Legislative Council, and remedy anomalies in the new electoral boundaries of Nelson, Motueka, and Marlborough. The conference affirmed the principle of th^re being one deep sea port for the province with a system of light railways to serve the fruit trade of the ports of Mapua. Motueka, and Nelson. Captain Worley, New Zealand Engineers, who was i n charge of tlie light railway construction for the New Zealand division on the Western front, favored the 2ft. gauge, with steam or petrol engines for hauling; the speed being about eight miles an hour, thus enabling lines to be laid on the roadside without danger to ordinary traffic. The trucks used in France would carry about 4| tons of fruit, and the district could be railed in a few months, and the system would be far cheaper than' the construction and maintenance of permanent roads. i