EAST COAST RAILWAY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14441, 30 October 1917, Page 7

EAST COAST RAILWAY.

WAIHI-TAURANGA SECTION. PROTESTsI^oJ NEGLECT. Reference to the inactivity of tht Public ■ Works Department m regard t< the Waihi-Tauraiiga of the lSast Coast- Railway .was made by the chairman: of the. Auckland Railways Deague, Mr P. E. Cheal, -at the annual meeting. He statediUhat*^hefMihister.;for Public Works, the Hon. W.' Fraser, had 'promised to spend more money on the section if the '■ labor • cpuld,^be obtained. This threw the onus on."' Ancklahd- merchants if they Vere intereteted 1 ; m railway connection with that city- to jmake an efforl to obtain labor , for this section of railway, or financially s'upjport tiie league iji its efforts to have this important line pushed' forward. ' On the motion or' Mr G. C. Garlick, seconded by Mr H. T. Goldie, a resolution w>s carried' tb*^he"'i^ffect; "that the Miriisteiis proniise should *_"c.' "taken u-p by' Auckland citizens, aiid^ an effort made to obtain sui table labor to enable vigor; bus operations on the line m question tc be : undertiiiken. It; was; mentioned that ii. the Waihi-Tauraiiga section was linked up with, the Tauranga-Matata t oonstruction line; there Would' be'a lirie of over 200 miles connecting the East Coast directly witli. Auckland. : > yA'- ; ■MV'Cheal remarked that- the Minister's promise was "_ a. challenge to • the citizens- of Aitckland,/ .'. '' ' . On the motion of Mr T. H. Macky, seconded by; -Mr A. Murray>Bell,va further resolution was carried ' emphatically protesting -against 'the totally' inadequate j expenditure— £9oo— on the Waihi-Tau-ranga section for the past seven months.