THE OPUNAKE RAILWAY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 21, 22 May 1912, Page 4

THE OPUNAKE RAILWAY.

THE COMMISSION’S SITTING IN

STRATFORD

COXCLUDJXG PROCEEDINGS

After we wont to press yesterday the proceedings before the Opunake Railway Commission wore concluded. Mr. Walsh, of Lowgarth, put in a statement of actual returns from farms near the Mountain Reserve. At the conclusion of the business Mr. Holmes, the chairman of the Commission, thanked the gentlemen who had given evidence, and remarked upon the care which had been taken in preparing it, as a result of which the Commission has been placed in possession of all the necessary information concerning the Stratford route. His Worship the Mayor, speaking on behalf of the people of Stratford, and particularly on behalf of the witnesses before the Commission, expressed their thanks for and appreciation of the courtesy extended to them by the Commissioners, and gave expression to the opinion that the gentlemen into whose hands had been given the task of deciding on the best route for the railway could be depended upon to do what was best in the general interest, and their decision would he unanimously accepted.