RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20827, 20 March 1931, Page 14

RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION.

Sir, inspection and rpporfc on the 'Wharanui-Parnassus work was made at the request of the railway advocates the pepole of Marlborough, and they and tho press of New Zealand apparently differ from your correspondent, Jloarii, as to my qualifications. It is difficult to understand the montality of those who enter into a purely academic discussion of fl project which is going to squander on a very doubtful railway proposition enough money to settle on the land and give continuity of profitable employment to 2500 rural families (say 10,000 persons), and provide consequential employment for, say, 5000 breadwinners in the centres;. This means that the money being poured into the "sink" in the Marlborough construction should provide sustenance for 30,000 people without any charge on the taxpayers. Even what your correspondent terms "a purely transport problem" has to "transport" something at an economic figure, and when I say that there is not the "something" to transport, arui even if there were the cost would be prohibitive, I am asked "What about the Morningside tunnel?" N. G. Giiibble.