RIMUTAKA DEVIATION

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160732, 19 August 1920, Page 7

RIMUTAKA DEVIATION

I BIG WACRA.IiA.PA. DEPUTATION. ( GOVERXMEXT FIX SEISES TO DO / \ TA'AXvAAX'NT. \ TwAteA Ytxtss. Ns&oovaNwnN ) WELLINGTON, August 19. ■ ( A. uuuvhmu" Sail I j representing 43 local public and bnsii ness bodies, came down from the VFaii rarapa this moruiiig to urge upon the I Premier and the Minister for Public | Works Die necessity for immediately I making a deviation of the railway lino over the Rimutaka Ranges, The speakers were representative men of the city and country districts, the first of whom said that 50 years ago they were un- ( happily married to the city by means jof the llimutaka incline. To-day they I applied for a divorce ; they asked for a decree nisi, and they hoped that someth ing absolute would be Eone in three mouths. Mr Massey, in reply, said that the survey of the work for which they asked had been placed on the list of urgent surveys some time ago, and that it°would bo done at the earliest possible moment. Then would come the question of the selection of route, over which ho advised them not to fight. When the route was decided they would have to ask Parliament for the authorisation, and if he was at the helm he promised tnem there would be no delay.' That awful piece of line could not go on for ever; it must comb to an end.