KIWITAHI SETTLERS
REQUESTS TO MINISTER A favourable reply has been received by the secretary of the Kiwitahi Settlers’ Association, Mr. ‘ L. R. Harris, to the requests made to the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, Minister of Railways, by a large deputation which interviewed the Minister on the Kiwitahi railway station in the course of his journey by railcar. . The Minister has agreed to the settlers’ request that the stock loading yards be enlarged to cope with the great number of fat lambs railed from Kiwitahi every summer. Cattle stops are to be placed at the road crossing, and additional fences erected to prevent stock wandering on to the railway tracks. v Not before time the Minister has agreed to the installation of electric lighting in the station and the tablet porter’s cottage. The proposal to alter the road crossing near Kiwitahi station so as
to avoid’a danger spot has been favourably -considered by the Minister, and plans for this work have already been drawn up.
Settlers are pleased at the result of their deputation, which was organised in quick time when it was known that. the Minister was passing through.
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Matamata Record, Volume XIX, Issue 1787, 30 November 1936, Page 6
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189KIWITAHI SETTLERS Matamata Record, Volume XIX, Issue 1787, 30 November 1936, Page 6
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