RAILWAY WORKSHOPS FOR PALMERSTON.
Thb : Waimate Witness asserts that when the i Main Trunk lime is completed the railway workshops now existing at the several centres will be consolidated into one large concern at a convenient point, which. •in all probability will beat or-near Palnjerston JsTorth. UThe present workshops will be used as running shed* only where local needs of .a minor nature will be attended to. It is: also stated on the best authority that preliminaries are now being," or .are about to be, commanced in connection with the scheme. Of course Palmerston North, owing to its ; central 'position, must eventually, be the home of; the Government railway workshops, and a short i while'- ago* the Voting-Premier Stated that when the Government purchased the Manawatu railways, some £20,000 would bs.; expended at the local railway station."-'Unfortunately for this district'a hitch has,occurred in the negotiations and. thereloi'e,it may be some .time'^eforo;.. : 'e^nMTe!;;MterolfioD3;.'iiry
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7353, 22 July 1902, Page 2
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152RAILWAY WORKSHOPS FOR PALMERSTON. Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7353, 22 July 1902, Page 2
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