RAILWAY CONNECTION
SOUTH WESTLAND PLEA AID TO EXPANSION (Per Press Association.) HOKITIKA, this day. The Westland County Council at a meeting yesterday resolved to make a strong request to the Government for an extension of the railway to south Westland, and also asking the support of all the Coast local bodies. It was the unanimous opinion ttiat road transport would only retard the progress of the southern district and prevent further expansion. , The council also resolved to request the Minister of Forestry to make a persona! visit to south Westland to investigate the conditions of the white pine industry before the new regulations are brought into force. Speakers averred that the failure to provide the railway south would result in a great loss for the timber industry.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19376, 14 July 1937, Page 6
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127RAILWAY CONNECTION Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19376, 14 July 1937, Page 6
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