SOUTH ISLAND MAIN TRUNK.
THE RECENT REPORT. “.STALE AND VALUELESS.” (Eeb United Pbess Association.) BLENHEIM, August 12. The report on the South Island Main Trunk railway, which was included in the recently-issued Railway Statement, has been thoroughly checked, and a writer in the Marlborough Express denounces it as stale and absolutely valueless. He points out that the report was prepared on August 4, 1925, and presented to the Prime Minister on August 19, the day before the South Island deputation waited on the Minister to push the claims of the line. Mr Coates promised the deputation that a survey would be carried out, but there is nothing in this year s statement to show that the promise has been kept, and the conclusions reached by Messrs Fav and Casev are based not on such a survey but upon guesswork. The writer also points out that Messrs Fay and Casey’s report was written not after investigation on the spot, but in the Wellington office, and ho points out that at the time Mr Fay, at any rate, had n« knowledge whatever of the local conditions, having been in the Dominion onlv a week or two.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19867, 13 August 1926, Page 10
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194SOUTH ISLAND MAIN TRUNK. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19867, 13 August 1926, Page 10
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