RIMUTAKA DEVIATION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16821, 20 August 1920, Page 4

RIMUTAKA DEVIATION.

PREMIER. PROMISES ACTION. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, August 19. A deputation numbering 35U persons, representing 43 local, public and business bodies, came down from Wairarapa this morning to urge upon the Premier and the Minister of Public Works the necessity of immediately making a deviation or tho railway over the Rimutaka range.

Tile first speaker said that fifty years ago they were unhappily married to tho city by means Rimutaka incline. To-day they applied for a divorce. They asked for a decree nisi, and honed that something absolute would be done in three months.

Mr. Massey, in reply, said the survey of tho work for which they asked had boon placed on the list of urgent surveys some time ago, and would bo done at the earliest possible moment. Then would come the question of the selection of tho route, over which ho advised them not to fight. When tho route was decided on they would have to ask Parliament for authorisation, and if lie was at tho helm ho promised'them there would be no delays. This awful piece of line could not go on for ever: it must como to an end.