JUSTICE TO THE SOUTH.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12283, 9 July 1914, Page 1

JUSTICE TO THE SOUTH.

A MEMBER MAKES CONTRASTS. "By Telegraph. (Soecial to ■the .Oniniimi Mail.) Wellington, July R. Justice to the South Island was a theme which Mr J. C. Thomson (Wallace) dealt with in outspoken fashion in the House to-day. There are 1400 men employed on railway construction work in the North Island and G2u in the South Island, or less than half. This was not fair, said Mr Thomson. Six now lines had boon authorised for the North Island, including one in the Prhno Minister's own district, though the Winton-Hoddon Bush railway authorised in 1911 had not had a. penny spent on it. "This is unjust and £ standhere to ask for justice,' 1 -declared .Mr Thomson, who asked by what right Ministers should hold back the money authorised by Parliament. Their auto--oracv was proverbial. The Minister of Public Works promised to send a surveyor to survey the route of the Tuatn-lx'rc-Orawia line, but he had neglected to do so, though he sent a man to make a flying survey of a private line to a coalfield, and the gentleman who wanted it was to be a candidate for Parliament. "Was that treating the people fairly? Was that clean administration :- asked the southern member, and he was encouraged with a chorus of -'Hear, hears," from those around him.