THAT FIRST SOD.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11509, 4 October 1915, Page 5

THAT FIRST SOD.

A LAUGHABLE INCIDENT. Mr J. T. M. Hornsbv caused considerable laugh lor in the House on Friday iHL.ht by liis vivid description oi: how, with Slags Hying, and tile local band playing, the. first sod oi: tho railway from .uartinborougii to Featberstou. or ' v ■vci>:i. iviiN turned two years ago by ihc I ion Mr A smaii be,y. said Mr Hornsby. liaxt solemnly picked up tiie lirst sod, and. had) ca.rted i u away, and it now reposed in state in the .school museum. (Laughter.) Vet from rh;U day to this nothing mere had been done with regard to 1 lit* railway to Martirdwrongh. (Loud laughter, t Tho ilr.st so,i hadbeen tJirru'd at Mariinberough, but tho building oi' i-lm railway would commesiee, if it. ever . started at a!!, at Feathersiun. (Laughter.) Further, he uuder.stood thai the section on whick i'hiit first sod wa.s tuj'ued, amid all tho Ike- wagging and band-playing--(Laugh-t-e)*) —a section belonging to a poor widow, hod only been borrowed for tho august occasion. (LanghtorL It liati never been bought by the Government, and the widow, to her great- surprise and. disgust, bad Mid to pay rates ore that section. (Laughter.) She wanted to know, ami he wanted to know, when the raihvr'V uas to be proceeded with. (H enewod laugiitsr.)