SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
IMPORTANCE URGED. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, April 8. Tho second annual conference of tho South Island Progress League was held to-day, delegates being present from Otago, Marlborough, Nelson, Canterbury, Southland anil Buller. A remit was carried emphasising the importance of completing the South Island main trunk railway at an early date, taking the East Coast route as being the most direct as opening up country whose productivity can bo appreciably increased by railway connection, and as being destined to carry the major portion of tho passenger traffic between the islands. Commenting on the Government estimate that the lino would cost £2,000,000 Mr Coulter (Marlborough) thought that if let by contract it could bo done much cheaper. The North Island Main Trunk lino was now completed, while the North also had a line via Napier, Gisborne and Tauranga, which eventually would give it two main lines. The railway construction vote last year gave £1,111,500 for tho North and only £134,500 for the South.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 110, 9 April 1926, Page 9
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164SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 110, 9 April 1926, Page 9
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