Otago Central Railway.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 5402, 15 April 1909, Page 3

Otago Central Railway.

(Per Press Association) Dunedin, This day

Sir J. G. Ward, in a communication to the Dunedin Star, says that the decision to stop to Roxburgh-Lawreuoe line pending Parliament reviewing the position is unalterable The Otago Oentral line, last year, resulted in the abnormally low result of six shillings per oeut, a deficiency on a 3 per cent basil of £34,558, and he estimated that the Roxburgh line would prove nearly as disastrous. The suggestion that Southland influences had been responsible for the Government’s aotion was baseless and without warrant, while the wretched suggestion that it was done to punish the district beoause of returning a staunch Oppositionist wus almost too contemptible to be considered iu a matter of suoh vital importance.