NAPIER-GISBORNE RAILWAY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10876, 20 September 1911, Page 2

NAPIER-GISBORNE RAILWAY.

(Pek Press Association.) Y«vS\ ■ Wellington. September' 19. . A deputation which waited' on the 'Premier'this afternoon urged : the Government to make a start with the' Na-pier-Gisborne railway from the Napier end. It asked that £50,000 be voted this year for the line from that end ana ;£50,000 for the line from the Gisborne end.; - Sir Joseph Ward said Tie had already made it clear 'that th& .Government intended to go on with the line i from the 'Napier end.: The Governmentrwas doing-' its best to commence there, and he- proposed; to table authorisation this session. In the course: of • general remarks the-Premier Tesent-ed the criticism of a kind calculated to damage the Government and to deter the country from going on with public works. The Government had been subjected to the vilest of abuse- and most contemptible tactics in connection with the public undertakings it was carrying on. In no other country would they find the cry of "stinking fish" being so raised. The Government, however, would make proper provision for the railway and accept the responsibility.