"NEGLECTED AUCKLAND."

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 15184, 23 December 1909, Page 7

"NEGLECTED AUCKLAND."

[Per Press Association.]. AUCKLAND, December 22. Discussing tho votes for railways; as announced in the Public Work's Statement to-day, Mr Bart Kent, president of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, said that there was no doubt whatever that the South Island was again being enriched at tlie expensb of the North. This was surely unreasonable and unjustifiable, as the North had the larger population and parliamentary representation, as well as. a greater amount of produce and trade, with an immense expansion going or. that was not being evidenced in the South Island. In every way the North was greater, more thriving and more open to extensive development within the next decade than the South, "And yot again," said Mr Kent, "in the allocation of money for railway development we come off second best. '