A Colonial Road.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12290, 24 June 1903, Page 2

A Colonial Road.

PUBLIC MEETING AT WANGANUI. Per Press Association. Wanganui, June ?2. That the people of Wanganui and d strict are in earnest n their desire to have the long shelved Parapara- ! Kaetihi Road completed •as speedily as ! men and money can do it was evidenced at a meeting 'held in the OperaHouse to-night. The Mayor presided, and- ihe audience was composed of men of every shade of political, opinion. , The speakers made it clear that they | were asking for no favours, 'in that they were demanding no more 'than justice. The strong note of ; the meeting was that the. completion of i the road >vas a. matter of public ur-" gency, that its construction would not only benefit the town and country, but the -colony as a whole, and that as a profitable commercial investment, it was an enterprise the reproductive 'character of which is assured /'at the i outset. The Goverrinitent bHight no ; longer 'to' put off the making of sp important an arterial highway. I At the conclusion of the meeting the Chairman announced that a petition, i which had been in circulation during the meeting and which together with the resolutions passed at the meeting i would be forwarded to the Govern1 merit would bear a thousand signallures. Uesolutions were passed urging the Government to place on the Estimates [during the present session a sum sufificient to complete the road, and ap- ! pointing a deputation to wait upon [the Premier. . ' ' . \ . -

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