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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 76, 3 August 1929, Page 4

Arrangements are well iin hand for the Old Pupils' ball which is .to be held on Thursday evening next. "Coming to the South Island," . said Sir Joseph Ward in his Budget, "there is the completion of, the South Island Main Trunk line by bridging the gap between Wharanui and Parnassus. The Government is satisfied that the construction of this piece of line, estimated to cost about £2,350,000, is necessary to complete the South Island system. About £43,000 has already been expended on preliminary work, and as soon as the surveys now being made can be completed the construction work will be pushed on vigorously. There has been much discussion as to whether this section of line will pay, but the discussion has all been on the basis of treating the new piece of line as an isolated sections, instead of a necessary part Of the ' trunk railway system. One could doubtless find many sections of the existing main, lines which, considered, as isolated sections, could be shown to be hopeless propositions as revenue-producers; Met no <.ni would sugest that they gshouitl not havf been built. From Oi« paying point of view the trunk Un,«»s ravst. be regarded as a compile sysjenj, aiu) not a series of lni» eprterit Uti'tF " *