DUNEDIN RAILWAY STATION AGAIN.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 656, 4 March 1909, Page 4

DUNEDIN RAILWAY STATION AGAIN.

We are once moie having Dnnedin railway station dished up as a ohampion piece of Government extravagance which the Opposition tried to prevent. At the same time we are told that a big railway station must be inado at Wellington. The estimate for readjusting the yards and coordinating the old company's line and the eastern lines at Wellington is £250,000. To make the Dnnedin oase appear the blaoker the Opposition orators Inmped the cost of the Dnundin yards, work that'must have been done in auy oase, into the cost of the station as though it were all spent on the building. Also they oaiefully suppressed the faot that the Dunedin railway station was promised by the Atkiuson Ministry, whioh actually wasted a considerable sum in foundations for it-putting them in the wrong place. Yet we hear once more the old accusations without the explanation. Next we will have the Opposition members for Wellington imploring Government to make the station at Wellington, only for a few years later themselves or their successors to be abusing the Government for making it—if it is so ill advised as to listen to their urging and start it now.