LIGHT RAILWAYS
ACTIVITY IN MOI’TERE HILLS. A PROMISING MOVEMENT. Tho Montore Hills 1 ji £a 111 Railway League is a rapidly inereasing organisation. Tho organising secretary, Mr ,lames Hunter, of Invercargill, arrived at Tasman on Thursday, 3rd inst., and at once got to work enrolling members. He has been all over the Tasman Valley, and has not so far had a refusal. He will devote the present jvoek to Ruby Hay, Mapua, Hell’s, Bronte, and Mahana, and will report progress to a meeting to be held in the Mapun Shed at 2 p.m. on Satnrday next. T'lie keenest Interest in the railway project is everywhere evinced, and the organising secretary is quite satisfied that it will he earned through to complete success. Members of the League are being asked to contribute .to the preliminaries at the rate of is per acre on their total holdings, and are j’cspondina cheerfully aucf promptly. Simultaneously the organiser is having a petition prepared praying for the constitution of a Railway District under tho Local Railways Act, 1914, and a -roll is being compiled in preparation for the election of a Railway Board as soon as tire setting up . ot tho Railway District is proclaimed.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, Issue LIV, 15 June 1920, Page 4
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200LIGHT RAILWAYS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, Issue LIV, 15 June 1920, Page 4
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