Savs the Manawatn Stumiar l: It a crying scandal that the colony In, to find £l4 COO to bridge the Hokitika rm r under the pretence that a railway to lioss is a colonial work, when dis tricts more plentifully provided for bv nature, and which could he made to yield an enormous return to the colony ‘ are being starved for the want of necessary means of communication. An evidence of the sort of place lioss is. is given by the fact that for several years past there has he,n a sum of £15.000 voted fertile assistance of the development of mining there oil condition that the residents prove ihoir , , raising a certain sum themselves hut they have never yet fulfilled that ’ e.an. ditton, and never will. As a matter' of I let the railway will servo annul, 7()0 People, it will cost nt least £IOO.OOO mi l there will never he enough trallic to pay tile working evp-iiaos.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume IX, Issue 1199, 26 February 1902, Page 4
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159Page 4 Advertisements Column 5 Pahiatua Herald, Volume IX, Issue 1199, 26 February 1902, Page 4
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