THE OTAGO CENTRAL.
In connection with the railways, Sir Joseph Ward, speaking at Ophir, stated that the extension was the first plank in the Government's policy of developing tho country, and that cheap fares and cheap freights were an essential thereto. He mentioned that tho railway traffic in New Zealand was carried at a lower rate than in any other colony south of the line, and he promised that when the Otago Central was completed to Ophir facilities would be afforded residents to visit the seaboard at as reasonable a rate as possible. New Zealand, with a population of only 800,000 people, provided conveniences fit for a population two and a half times as large. He, for one, believed that nothing could more readily help to develop the country than a policy of railway development and that it would be suicidal and would hamper all the colony's industries to suddenly stop tho public works policy.
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Lake County Press, Issue 1065, 21 May 1903, Page 4
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