UNFINISHED RAILWAYS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18530, 17 October 1934, Page 9

UNFINISHED RAILWAYS

APPEAL FOR COMPLETION CRITICISM IN THE HOUSE {For Pres* AWriathm.*;. WELLINGTON, last night. . Comment oil the uncompleted rail l way lines in the South Island -and. to Gisborne was made in the House of Representatives to-day.during the debate on the public works statement. Mr. P. C. Webb (Labor, Buller) referred to the equipment used in the construction of the South Island Main Trunk railway which was left to rot when the work was stopped. Mr. E. F, Iteaiv. (Coai., Wairan) said that one would gather from the statement that railway construction in t New eal'and had stopped for ever. He contended that the’ people who previously thought railway construction Should stop had Changed their opinions and now* considered that such lim>s. -as the. South \l > u Truid •■•:d inp GlsborpeWairoa railway should lie completed, lie appealed- to the Govermuent to get busy and put ip,Qop mien on these rail-wft-s, He that the Goyernment was endeavoring to dispose of the mi on w.tidi the ...ut.ii island Main Trunk wi»B to be built: ‘ . : ■,: . V Mr. R, McKeen (Labor, Well ngtoa S.) said that Mr. Mealv would nevef secure support. for liis railway from the present Government. The amount of. money yhic’nhad been spepfc on railways that had been stopped was a scandal.