The Premier at Hokitika

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1217, 7 January 1905, Page 3

The Premier at Hokitika

| 'lmportant Suggestion Local Bodies anil Prospecting Subsidies I By Telegraph,—Press Aeaociation. L Hokitika, this day, t Tab Premier, replying to a deputation l p said it would be necessary to return to ■ Wellington at once owing to important ■j, duties, including the setting up of tho ■ liind and other commissions. He said ho intended to ask Parliament next session ■ for a special grant to carry tho telephones F to the baok blocks. Tho Midland liailway Mtlshonld have been completed five or six years ago; the colony had been retarded for » years by the delays arising from the con- • tract. The line Blood on an equal footing » with the North Island Trunk lino, Ho hoped for the early completion of the & Staircase Gully section, but at tho present rate ol progress it would take four years. He hoped Parliament would provide . fands to complete that portion in two years V sit the most. Dealing with prospecting, he urged tbe jv local Mies to set aside a portion ol their k goliTioV revenue each year for the f spec lie v. of prospering, and asked i • them to suggest an alteration in tho Minit- ing Emulations to help towards the work,