THE CENTRAL RAILWAY LINE JUNCTION.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 5495, 15 December 1884, Page 3

THE CENTRAL RAILWAY LINE JUNCTION.

TO THK EDITOR.

Sir,— Allow me through the medium of your valuable paper to make a few remarks In referenoe to the above junction^ Perhaps it is not known by most of the settlers of Rangitikei where the proposed junotion is to be, now air it was distinctly understood by all the inhabitants of Marton and Burounding district that the junotion was to be at the present Marton station, but from information I have just reoeived, the junction is to be some where in Mr Atkinson's paddock about l£ or 2 milea from the corner of Hi_hstreet and Broadway, whereas the present Marton station is only f of a mile, and a good metaled road to it, and also within the Borough of Marton. Now sir, it seema a farce that the Central Line Junotion should be so far from the township of Marton, as passengers from Auckland to Wellington, and vice versa will never see Marton or any portion of it if the present proposed site is not altered. Now 1 think the Government could save a very large sum of money by making the line come into the present station, instead of having to purchase 7 or 10 acres of land for another station only 1£ miles from the present Marton station, where there is plenty room for doing all the work and shunting for the next 10 years to come. I think it could be shown that a very good line could be made to come in at the baok of tho township and run along the unmade portion of the Pukupapa road to the corner at the top of High-street through Mr Gash's paddock then Mr Goils and branch into the present; station; by this means, passengers from Auokland to Wanganui or Taranaki, would be saved the extra mileage, ateo good* from the up country going the same war. What I would advise the people of Marton to do (before it is too late) is to either call a public meeting or get a petition up which I am sure would be signed by nearly all the residents of Rangitikei, and send it to the Minister for Publio Works, showing him the great in* justice that would be done to a large portion of the inhabitant* if "the proposed site for the junotion is adopted. Anything they do they should do at once, for if it is left for the jnnotion to be where it is proposed to be, they will be sorry before many years are over their head. Apologising for taking up* ■o much of your valuable paper, — I am, Ac, Kanoitikbi,