RAILWAY AGITATION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15274, 23 July 1920, Page 6

RAILWAY AGITATION.

-"■•-' - — *•- — ~— — Tlie favmei-8 of Tnvanakl aro particularly unxions for a sueoding-up of tho \ S(>ratford-Okahukura\ railway _ m order I bnl nccess may bn given to the cool deposits o? tho' Ohimi Valley. At tho monthly meeting of tho TuvunuUl Provincinl Executive of tho Farmer*' Union it wiip contended, that wire-pulling \vus« goin^r on. both at Auckland nnd Wellington, In order thpt Hi* iino may be pushed nhend from tho Ancklnnd -end. Letters, wore" received from Tarannki members of Parliament with regard to ' concerted action being taken at Wellington. Mr Hawkin, M.P., stated that i there were 2J miles of tunnelling lo be done before tlje line could, reach the coalfields. The Hon. J. G. Coates wrote , that he was fitly alive to- the importance of ti)p work and the groat assistance it ', would bo m developing tho coal measures m tho Ohura. district. Ho was ! fully apprised of the difficulties m con--1 nection with the coal shortage, but un- ► fortunatojy the troqble was a natjpnaj i- #>ne. A resolution was carried that res presißn.tp,t}pnß again madp to the Mm I- lster urging the completion of the line ' from Tahora to Taungarakau, ft distance j of five or Bj* ipijes pnljTi t-P °P pn un tll ° I °°alfipld, / . ;