MINISTER IN THE NORTH.
DEPUTATIONS AT WAIPU. [BY TEIEGRAPH. —SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] WAIPU. Tuesday. Deputations which waited upon the Minister for Lands at Waipu to-day spoke of the disadvantages suffered, owing to the lack of railway communication and the consequent loss of transporting goods. The construction of a light railway to Oakleigh, authorised about four years ago, was urged. Mr. Guthrie said that -after travelling over the roads of the district ino one could say that the, settlers were not entitled to better communication. He assured them that the Minister for Public 1 Works would keep his promise to build the railway when "the conditions were normal. i The Minister was also asked to consider the problem of drifting sands, and also- to cut up large areas of worked-out gum lands. He said he would secure a report upon the inroads made by the sand, and added that he had no objection to lifting the reservation on the gum lands in question. '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16850, 15 May 1918, Page 6
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