GISBORNE RAILWAY.
(To tho Editor of f.lie riLerald.) Nir,-The remarks of Mr. Gardiner at the public meeting called to consider the above question would be amusing were they not so highly colored and misleading. 1. am sure the fanners on the inland route will not thank him for assessing their land at 1-J sheep, and to suggest that the coastal line would serve the Mangapoike. Valley is quite absurd, if settlers have, their stock and wool ami oilier produce carted for 20, 30, or 40 miles I hey are not going to unload and load twice when there, is but about eight, miles to travel to port on a level bitumen road. I happen to know that Mr. Bloore's stock figures, etc., were obtained from official records, and Mr. Gardiner will find it a big job to upset them. Then to .suggest that J miles of a longer line would take an extra day to reach Wellington only shows to what straits these coastal advocates are driven in the endeavor to justify that route. Might I suggest an appropriate name for this new league, that it shall be called
" The Little Gisborne branch of the Nuliaka Railway and Waikokopu Harbor League?"—l am, etc., BIG GISBORNE.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16704, 23 July 1928, Page 8
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