ROXBURGH.
There is not enough fruit country to keep the iron horse going, and the fruittrade is not properly organised for the fruit there is on the ground now. It is as good fruit there as there is in any part of the world. That everyone admits. But to keep a line of railway, not of the cheepest construction, something more is required than a few peaches and nectarines. If, in years to come, the question should arise of abandoning the portion of the Otago Central lying between Opliir and Middlemareh, abandoning the same for economic reasons, the question would follow of diverting the traffic of the interior to the growjng port of the Bluff. Then arguments which arc not available now would apply with force. For the ■present, however, the predominant note of the feeling both south and north about the Roxburgh extension ought to be one of self-denial; —“Southland News.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2495, 7 May 1909, Page 2
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152ROXBURGH. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2495, 7 May 1909, Page 2
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