EAST COAST RAILWAY ROUTE
HINT BY PRIME MINISTER (By Telegraph—Press Association) GISBORNE, This Day. A clear hint that the route for the East Coast railway will be a coastal and not an inland one was given by the Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward, in the course, of addresses at complimentary gatherings here on Saturday night. “After 20 years you are wondering which route you are going to have. Let me tell you that within ten days from now I will undertake to. settle that route question far all time.” This announcement .was greeted with deafening cheering, which lasted fully a minute.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 4 March 1929, Page 2
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101EAST COAST RAILWAY ROUTE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 4 March 1929, Page 2
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