“ANOTHER EXPLODED IDEE.”
TO TEE EDITOR. Sir, —Apropos to your remarks in yesterday’s paper, I would point out that Mr Travers’ recent emphatic utterance as to the unfitness for settlement of the country traversed by the Midland Eailway is also contradicted in rather a startling manner, by his own evidence given before the Middle Island Railways Extension Commission of 1832. At that time, he swore : “ Independent of other considerations, the importance of providing for the carriage by rail of the productions of the West Coast to the East has always weighed with me very strongly in connection with any projected trank line between the North and the South. I am quite satisfied that the area of land from the Teremakau North to the line of the Buller would afford the means of settling a very large population. * * * The change in the vegetation is palpable immediately on crossing the watershed between the Teremakau and the Grey. AU up the Grey you see very nice farms, and great capacity for improvement.” From the Teremakau North to the line of the BuUer via the Grey valley is a length of some 9D miles, and is, of course, part of the very route actually adopted for the line now in course of construction.—l am, &c., GEORGE PHIPPS WILLIAMS, C.E. Christchurch, April 16.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 8146, 18 April 1887, Page 5
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