RAILWAY ENTHUSIASM

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 166, 16 July 1920, Page 8

RAILWAY ENTHUSIASM

RATIO OP,ENTHUSIASM,

THE CANTERBURY DISAGREE-

MENT.

[FKOJI OTTIt COIIKESrONDTCNT.}

CHRISTCHTJHCH, July 16. The Press tliis morning says editorially: "Perhaps it was because they were politicians and daily occupied in criticising each other that the members of the Canterbury deputation that waited on lihe Hon. Mr Cbates at Wellington yesterday disagreed amongst themselves as to the ratio of their enthusiasm amongst the railway projects in the northern Jialf of this island. They must not <lo this again. Nothing pleases a •harried Minister more ,than the sight •of local disagreements,- because then lie can feel that he need not do, anything in a hurry. We'hop© that the Pi ogress League will ponder upon this small incident. It is a lesson upon the necessity for a clear policy without any possibilities of misunderstanding, and a lesson that the recent little quarrel with Marlborough «hows to he necessary-" *"