THE LAWRENCE-ROXBURGH RAILWAY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13210, 17 February 1905, Page 6

THE LAWRENCE -ROXBURGH RAILWAY.

TO TUE EDITOR. Sir,—ln your issue of yesterday there is a letter, signed "A. H. T.," bearing on the above subject. These initials stand for "A Halt Truth." Now half-truths, we are told, are the worst of lies. "A. H. T. " as a mathematician, is seriously at fault. He tolls'us that it has taken four years to make tho six miles of railway from Heriot to Mievalc, and yet he is going to complete the 24 miles from Heriot to Koxburgh in throo years. Perhaps' he has some electrical method of construction of his own. And it is to take 30 yeans to mako the railway from Lawrence to Koxburgh—" by employing 0110 man and a hoss," I presume. " A. H. T." says nothing about the " directness of tho route" via Lawrence), or the roundabout course travorsed by the proposed Hcriot-Ro'xburgh line. He magnifies the Big Hill tunnel, which is only short, and easy of construction, and says nothing about the engineering difficulties of tho Heriot-Roxburgh line. Ho speaks o'f tho "deviation" made to'Edievalc. Why was this? Ask the political wire-pullers and logrollers, or the Dunrobin residents. There aro many other discrepancies in "A. H. T.'s" letter, but no doubt they will lie dealt with by tho Railway League at the Roxburgh banquet this evening.—l am, etc., February 16. V. Z.