GISBORNE-NAPIER LINE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16497, 1 August 1924, Page 5

GISBORNE-NAPIER LINE.

THAT LITTLE SLIP

(Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day

“The concentration policy of railway construction when it was announced by the Minister of Works, was hailed with satisfaction by the public,” remarked Mr. Lysnar in the House yesterday. There had, however, been a great demand for duplications and for another Lyttelton tunnel, though lie thought these should not be authorised until outside works were finished. There was a definite promise from the Minister oi Works that he would go on with the Napier-Gisborne line when the Olira tunnel and North Auckland railway were completed. Therefore, when members urged deviations and duplications, they were abandoning their support mid pledges in favor of concentration. At present the Napier-Gisborne line was held up at the no-rib end through the Department, which stopped construction because of a slip no-t ten chains in extent. There had, been the worst winter for 30 years, yet this miserable little slip had stopped. Nevertheless the work was hung up. All sorts of expense were incurred trying other lines because of a little bit of a slip which had cured itself.