INANGAHUA RAILWAY.
LABOUR LEADER’S VIEW. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, April 18. Interviewed after his West Coast tour Mr M. J. Savage (Leader of the Opposition) said, referring to the Inangaliua-Westport railway: “Whatever might he the rights or wrongs of it, someone committed an unpardonable sin. Either the line should not have been started, or it should not have been stopped. For my own'part, I think it should have been completed. It is something of a tragedy that it has been, stopped, with only twelve miles to go.” Miles of line were rusting, he said, while rails not used had been shipped to the North Island. The .workmen’s cottages had been sold at ridiculously low prices, and feeling ran high on the Coast over the matter.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 119, 19 April 1934, Page 7
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125INANGAHUA RAILWAY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 119, 19 April 1934, Page 7
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