The siiG^eation by the chairman of the Napier Harbor Board that the unprofitable Ota,go " Central Railway might he- "lifted" and . its rails relaid where they are most needed should' warn the Government of the growing feeling that the East Coast line cannot be much longer; delayed' (States the Auckland Herald). There. is this' to be said m favor ' of the suggestion that it might be a business-like method, of cutting our losses upon the South Island system, while expediting at the samo time the development of great and promising districts now, barred against settlement *by the* absence of railway facilities. TheVSouth Island has a veritable net- work of lines -which >V6uld never have been built had it not been for the political influences exerted, I and the least ye can expect is that the ■North Island lines, which are obviously called for and 1 which will, .enrich,' not impoverish, the country, should be pushed, forward without delay.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14340, 3 July 1917, Page 7
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