INVERCARGILL RAILWAY WORKSHOPS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2437, 28 November 1900, Page 23

INVERCARGILL RAILWAY WORKSHOPS.

. (Fkoji Ottb Own Correspondent.) INVERCARGILL, November 23.

The Hon. J. G. Ward, Minister of Railways, intimated to-day to the mayor and councillors the site fixed upon for the new railway workshops. They lie between the present station and the Invercargill jetty, on the west side of the Bluff -railway line, comprising the whole of blocks V and VI, Invercargill town survey. . The area is , about 11 acres, upon which a few small • "buildings stand. This land will have to be taken possession of by the department under the Public Works Act, and portion, of two streets at present not much .used will be closed. To this no objection is likely to be raised, - publicly or privately.^ By some reclamation work not of a costly nature the area can be considerably increased, making of the whole a fine oblongshaped block extending from the present^ railway premises in a south-westerly direction to the Bluff line on the one side and the foreshore of the estuary on the other.

A man named Harry Nelson, was burned to death in his camp, about halfway between Kalgoorlie and the Boulder. Talking with a representative" of the Egmont Post upon the subject' <of light railways, the Hon. Mr Hall-J.ones said the matter was one in _ which he took the keenest personal interest. He believed that the Stratford line would be a great success, and that it would be but the forerunner of hundreds of miles , of similar lines throughout the colony.