BUILDING A RAILWAY
WHERE SHALL IT GO? MINISTER IN QUANDARY (From Our Own Correspondent.) TAUMARUNUI, To-day. The lion. K. S. Williams, Minister of Public Works, had a rather pretty problem presented to him during his visit to the district last week, when deputations representing settlers in the Tatu and Tokirima areas respectively aired their view's concerning the values of rival routes for a section of the Ohura-Stratford Railway. With true ministerial caution the Hon. K. S. Williams decided to leave the matter of deciding the route till “he had conferred with the heads of the department.”
The Tatu settlers claimed that if the line is built through their district it will follow a shorter and easier route than would otherwise have to be taken, w'hile the Tokirima settlers contended that the route through their locality could be followed wdthout injuring any good farming land, as would be the case with the alternative suggestion. The Minister frankly stated that he had not come to decide on the route for the railway, but to hear all they had to say, and get an idea of their troubles. In deciding on a route they had to guard against over-expenditure.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 46, 17 May 1927, Page 14
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196BUILDING A RAILWAY Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 46, 17 May 1927, Page 14
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