OUR RAILWAY.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 906, 2 June 1903, Page 3

OUR RAILWAY.

(To the Editor Gisborne Times.)

Sir _i trust that tho opportunity proaonteci ut Mr Carroll’s meeting on Tuesday oveuiug to pass gome resolution dealing with tho speedy prosecution of tho railway to Motu will not be allowed to go by, but that the district will cinphasiso by their voico the necessity of pushing on the construction of this lino with all possible speed If tho present session is allowed to pass without a vote for the continuance of tho line from Te Baraka towards Opotiki, it will he at least two years before » start can bo made with the work, and in the meantime the progress of the district will bo retarded. According to Messrs Whinray and Crawford, who have recently returned from the Motu, there is sutlicient timber available in the Motu to supply the colony for many years 10 come. \\ by then should Gisborne be compelled m import a million feet of timber caen quarter for its own requirements Then thero is tho question of the dairying industry to he considered, and seeing that Mr McGregor is about to start a factory at ♦he Motu, surely that is sutlicient y •» r /~i if ..-..1 Hi.. \-»t n!»t) t.

to show Mr Carroll and his Government W hftt a practical man thinks about the district. The emoting this evening should also obtain from Mr Carroll tho promise j 0 d - what he can to induce his fellow Ministers to take a trip through from Gisborne to Opotiki next spring, it is true that the Hon. Mr Duncan once visited this district; but, alas, he was too tired to take on the Motu trip, lam persuaded that once our member induces the Premier tuul his colleagues to visit the jiaat Coast, and go overland from Gisborne to Opotiki, they will bo so impressed with tho necessity tor pushing on the railway that further agitation ou the p-irt of the Gisborne people will be unnecessary. Last time Mr Carroll spoke in Gisborne he dealt entirely with palerential tariff—a subject winch did not interest us much; let him to-mgbt devote his time and attention to the subjects ot Xatiee lands and the railway. Tnese arc the two questions that we want to hear him at length upon ; all others are not of much moment to Poverty Day. Let our watchword bo- PuomtKss.