GORE WAIKAKA RAILWAY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2667, 26 April 1905, Page 22

GORE WAIKAKA RAILWAY.

Speaking at Waikaka last week in regard to his proposal to form a company to finance the construction of the Goro-Kolso lailway. Mr W. Fraser, M.H.R., said i£ the people of the district had such faith in the railway, surely it was worth while raising 10 per cent, of the co=t. If they did that he was confident there would bo no difficulty in getting the line built. Merchants and others in Gore and Invereargill weie largely interested in the line, because it drained a large district that benefited them ; therefore, they should help the people at the Waikaka end. If they were wise they would. If they rcfu=ed. the speaker's advice was to go to Dunedin men and ask them to help build a lino to Kelso. and not go near Gore at all. He did not think that would be necessary, ho\ve\ er. But if the southern people would not help them, he (the speaker) would do his best io get the aid of the Dunedin people, and they were now just in the humour for it. — (Loud applause.) He could not tell them just what the capital of the company should be, but he had arranged with the Minister to get a flying survey from Gora to Waikaka, and would find out the estimated cost. Upon that would depend the capital of the company. He did not think that the line would oost £5000 a mile. They wanted to form a committee right away and get shares taken up. They could safely put it that £50,000 would be required for the work. They would have to form their company and register it, but there was no reason why they should not place shares before registration They should bring pressure to bear on the southern portion of the district, and say, " Are you going to help us? If not, we shall go to Dunedin." There was no risk in the matter, and the few pounds the men who took up shares would lose would be returned a hundredfold when they got the line made. It, is expected that the Gore branch of the Waikaka Railway League will meet Mr Fraser, M.H.R., on his return from his inter-sessional tour of the Wakatipu electorate to discuss details of his scheme for raising the money necessary to construct the railway between Gore and Waikaka.

A witness at the Auckland Assessment Court humorously remarked that his property faced the sea, and that you could stand on it and see the wide world over. " I had one tenant," he said. " who told me she had got rid of her rheumatics simply by sitting on the verandah and looking at the sea. Before she left she was able to