EAST COAST RAILWAY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14209, 4 November 1909, Page 5

EAST COAST RAILWAY.

BUILDING FROM ONE END.

A TAURANGA PROTEST.

[BY' TELEGRAPH.OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Tauranga, Wednesday. At" a meeting* of -the committee .of the Tauranga.Railway League to receive the report of the delegates who recently waited on Ministers, at Wellington, the following resolution, proposed by the president (Mr. G. A. Ward) was carried unanimously "That this league having carefully considered the replies given by Sir Joseph Ward and the Hon. R. McKenzie to the large deputation which waited on them on October 16, at Wellington, in reference to the East Coast railway, is of opinion that the Government does not fully recognise the immediate importance of the construction of this line, nor the injustice of further delaying railway con-* nection between Waihi, Ohinemuri, • and Thames goldfields, and the-great food producing areas of the Bay of Plenty, and thus on to Gisborne. Speaking with; a due sense of responsibility, this league views with alarm and resentment i the statement of the "Minister for Public Works that ho considers it. advisable to confine construction for. the present to the Gisborne end until the same has reached Motu.. This league, therefore, again," and more forcibly than ever, desire's to urge upon the Government the'necessity, justice, and expediency of carrying' forward the construction of the East Coast railway from both ends, and of pushing it rapidly onward from Waihi into the productive districts of the Bay of Plenty, which, when fully tapped, will ensure remunerative results both to the Dominion as a whole, as well as to the immense areas immediately concerned." A' further restitution that copies be sent to the various leagues and local bodies»interested and that they be invited to co-operate was carried.