EAST COAST RAILWAY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 34, 3 October 1912, Page 5

EAST COAST RAILWAY.

PUBLIC MEETING AT WAIROA

(Per Press Association.)

Wairoa, October 3

A public meeting last night discussed the stoppage of the East Coast railway works. No hostility was evidenced towards the Government, hut the Wairoa people are determined not to sit idly clown and let the agitation for the last twenty years go for nothing. Resolutions were passed urging the Government to proceed with work withont delay, and calling on Sir James Carroll and Mr H. M. Campbell, M.P.’s, to use their best endeavours in this direction; the meeting also drew attention to the advisability of starting work at Wairoa, whence there are twenty miles of easy country north and south, and suggesting the advisability of eleetr - fying the line to lessen the cost. A vote of thanks was passed to Mr J. Vigor Brown, M.P. for Napier, for his advocacy of the line and utilising Waikaremoana for electric power, and asking him to continue the advocacy of both. A strong railway committee was formed.