THE RIMUTAKA LINE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12102, 12 July 1920, Page 4

THE RIMUTAKA LINE.

A DEVIATION WANTED. % There were some forty delegates present, representing various Wairarapa bodies, at a conference held at Greytown yesterday, called by the local Chamber of Commerce, to consider the question of the Rimutaka deviation, and what stops should be taken to have' the line improved. , The following resolution was carried“ That the railway over the Rixnutaka, being admittedly inefficient and excessively expansive to work, and that a official statement had been made by a Government engineer to the effect that It costs sis times as much to carry a ton of goods on the present line as it would do on a new line, it is advisable that we urge that a new route bo definitely decided upon by experts, to which all railway works shall in future converge,” A committee was also formed to deal with matters of public importance in the Wairarapa. Daring the discussion one delegate said, that “the Palmerston North people were not going to let the Wairarapa have all its way in this matter. ” s i '...in —■■■*, -i