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Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 215, 10 September 1908, Page 3

The season for wild ducks has closed, but the season for " wild cats" has opened. This is the time —with an election approaching— when the railway sportsman goes out with a blunderbuss, pots at the Mm- j ister, and expects-to bring down half a dozen railways with one barrel. For ari hour and a half (says The Post) the Hon. W. Hall-Jones was attacked by an Auckland deputation, which modestly ask'&i • for-, six railways. "They are-only little ones," practically pleaded the spokesman. " They will not take many hundreds of thousands." The Minister agreed that an extension of line on the northern part of the Auckland province would serve good country, and could not be long delayed, but what is he to say when a dozen other deputations advance similar argument for a metalled way? The people with railway hunger deserve sympathy, but some of them must wait a little while for their dinner; they will enjoy it all the more when they get it, and they will not die from starvation in the meantime. The agitators persist in forgetting that New Zealand has not yet a population of sixty millions. , ,