RAILWAYS AND COLLIERIES

New Zealand Mail, 27 August 1902, Page 48 (Supplement)

RAILWAYS AND COLLIERIES

. WESTPORT, August 22. At a meeting of the Westport Chamber of Commerce to-mght it was resolved on % tUe J? resid 1 nt (Mr Bayfield) That this Chamber takes the first opportunity or meeting to convev to Sir Joseph Ware, the Acting-Premier, the thanks and appreciation of the Chamber for his prompt action in causing a survey to be started of the railway line to connect the port of Westport with the railway system of this island, and trusts that now it is started the work will be pushed expeditiously and continuously to completion, thus ensuring the much-need-ed opening up of the coal country and also for strategic purposes relative to the proposed fortification of the port- and

further, that the Chamber cn,,, gratification that' are / S n lt# which it trusts will be accepted railway bridge over the Inan Ka lm° r r - tha at Reofton, as a further '1! tv< ; r the accomplishment of the desired The president mentioned that Pnr 4 ’, Fox nine years ago recommended the Uel tion of fortifications when at Wocf but nothing so. far has been d onT^ It was also resolved-, on the motion the president, “That the Chamber“' r of ing that steps are being taken to Hev°^ le ' the coalfields of this listrict by 3 enterprise, respectfully conveys inti. Government, both by direct tion and through the members for Bu and Motueka, the hope of the Chamuf that every facility will be given to en* courage such steps as will meet the ermr ing demand tor Westport coal.” SevanJi members expressed the hope that restiV tions such as were imposed on the Cardiff Company, which was compelled to c\o?« down, should not be imposed on new com panics. u *