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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9140, 23 August 1888, Page 4

Our correspondent a,t Wellington informs us that the longer some of the Auckland members look at the Public Works Statement the less they like it. Mr. R. Thompson is disappointed at the small amount allotted for works north of Auckland, and regards the apathy of the Press and people of Auckland as to the non-extension of the North Auckland Trunk line is positively

astounding. For ourselves an j ' believe, we may say the same f M body here, we liked the Public W 7" Statement so bully when we &Vt 1 1 at it, that no subsequent conw> of it could make things n But there is no use saying a £,L Orse " the subject. Our members ZZ ° a throw the blame on the people V not We could with much more reason the blame on them, but we do not big sums obtained for carrying an !u Otago Central and for the corn 2' 9 of the Wellington system, SZT obtained, not so much by nrm ,, l agitation in those districts, as iJh persistent operations of their rep.--! tatives. Our correspondent account-T" it all by saying that "tjiefirst inS ot a Ministry after being squar 1 seated in the Ministerial bencher self-preservation." To retain their tl " tions it is necessary for them to* iw" friends of those who ate powerful ani who are not very scrupulous ' fl.p position as regards Auckland siinplv • <3 that everything has been dropped ItT Trunk Line has been stopped, leaving 6 gap between the portion constructed and a costly tunnel. The Rotorim comes to an end in a dense and m V habited forest. The short line j \\l North is not to be added to. \r ru' Thames the line is going to rum, and the grass is growing over the sleeper And yet we get no credit for patient suffering for tlie sake of the colonv bur are spoken about as a seltish lot alwai--trying to obtain advantages. And in this wlsile the provincial district rf Auckland has sent to Wellington the strongest body of supporters of Sir Harry Atkinson, and have enabled him to do all the retrenchment that has been done. Assuredly we shall have much reason to think gratefully of the session of 1888.