THE TRUNK RAILWAY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11952, 2 April 1894, Page 2

THE TRUNK RAILWAY.

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, March 30. A deputation from the Northern Railway League asked the Premier what information he had as to what had been done lately with regard to collecting evidence as to the best route. The Premier explained that the sur--1 veyors had got into several difficulties in the new trial routes by way of Taranaki, 1 and he had given instructions that if these difficulties were insurmountable it was useless to waste more money. He 1 feared they would havo to fall back on 1 the original Central line. Three explor- ' ing parties, he said, had boon out on the > Stratford route, which had been considi ered already, The Government officers 1 had pretty well put the lines where they ' would stop, notwithstanding further exploration which had been done. Eond- ' making in this connection was going on 1 expeditiously. The Premier thought it > was immaterial to Auckland which way ' tho railway went. What Auckland wanted at present was not railway ex- ' penditure but roadmaking and settlement. The latter was in the region of practical politic:), while the latter would require a big borrowing policy. He had . impartially carried out the report of the , Committee, but he thought the money would have been better spent in roadmaking.