THE EAST COAST.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 27 August 1919, Page 4

THE EAST COAST.

NAPIER. Aug. 26. At the conference called by the East Coast Railway League for the purpose of forming an East Coast Development League and discussing the best methods of advancing the interests of the district of the East Coast, the chariman stated that it w^s no "good going over past mistakes. AH governments were to blame, and people themselves. The speaker referred to the extensive lands still unopened on the Ea6t Coast, which was richly provided by nature. It was hilly country, but the soil was good. There were no harbors, but a railway would be of great service, yet practically nothing had been done to open up the land. Much of*the discussion centred round the neglect of the Waikaremoana hydro-electric scheme, and the utmost unity prevailed. The league wasTormally instituted and officers elected.