GISBORNE INTEREST IN RAILWAY LINE.
DEPUTATION PROTESTS AGAINST ABANDONMENT. \ Pfr Press Association. WELLINGTON, January 7. A strong protest against the announcement by the Government that it intended to abandon the construction of the railway line from Gisborne to Waikokopu was made by a deputation to-day to the Hons E. A. Ransom, W. A. Veitch and W. B. Taverner. The deputation was headed by Mr D. Lysnar, M.P. for Gisborne, and Mr K. S. Williams, M.P. for the Bay of Plenty, and was representative ,of all local liodies and all political parties in the district. It was alleged that the Government’s action was unwarranted from any angle, and that the line would develop the tremendous resources of the district. It was urged that it would be a paying proposition. Mr C. Williams, representing the Poverty Bay Sheepowners’ Federation, said the line would make an enormous difference to industry in the district. There -was a difference of between 3s and 5s in the price paid for sheep at Gisborne and Hastings to the detriment of Gisborne. The line would mean the development of 2,500,000 acres of land. What was driving the Government into its action was an outcry from the rest of the Dominion, which did not know the position.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19271, 7 January 1931, Page 7
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