NO WORD FROM WAIRARAPA.

Wairarapa Age, 24 September 1923, Page 4

NO WORD FROM WAIRARAPA.

The 11 Evening Post” continues steadily along its campaign of propaganda in favour of a deviation of the Main Trunk railway between Wellington and iPorirua as against the Rimutaka deviation. It insists that Wellington cannot expect to have both these great undertakings put in hand, and urges the business people and local bodies of the Empire City to get to work and make themselves vocal in favour of the line on tho other coast." One would have thought that, having brought the Rimutaka deviation campaign to its present very hopeful position, the people of the Wairarapa would put forward a united demand to have the work proceeded with. Less than a year ago there was a certain show of anger in some quarters be« cause the Government was accused of having shelved the matter. The Government engineers hare now brought forward detailed proposals which advance the matter much farther than was anticipated at that time; yet instead of causing satisfaction or a desire to go ahead tho engineers’ report seems to have caused a sort of paralysis amongst those who a few months ago were most clamant for action. If no action is taken by tho people of the Wairarapa on the strength of the engineers’ report the Government will be justified in concluding that the movement has died a natural death, and devoting its attention to the more pressing claims of the other coast.