WEST COAST RMLWAY MEETING AT KAIAPOI.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1182, 13 October 1882, Page 2

WEST COAST RMLWAY MEETING AT KAIAPOI.

At the public meeting held in the instituite on Monday evening, about a dozen persons were present The Mayor presided, and said the meeting was called by resolution of the Borough Council. A lengthened pause following his opening speech, but on his rising for the " second time of asking " if any one meant to propose a motion, Mr Isaac Wilson, M.H.R., denied areportthathewasin favor of the East Coast line. Tie was opposed to any route of railway to Cook Straits at present, as the time had not come to carry out the trunk railway scheme of 1877. He had been silent on the question in committee, as the Minister of 'Public Works had informed lion, members that the amount of £180,000 placed on the estimates of the intended expenditure of the three million loan would only take the north line to acommon point, from which it would afterwards be necessary to decide whether the line should be taken to the West Coast, the Tophouse route, or that along the East Coast. In the Canterbury's caucus he advocated setting aside £400,000 for the line. He considered that Canterbury's share of the loan ought to hove been at least one million, and that the cost of the West Coast line ought to have been provided for. Mr G. M. Blackwell thought agitation was either too late or too early, and the importance of the West Coast line was such that the public would make its voice thereupon heard. Mr Woodford spoke in advocacy of the West Coast l'oute. Mr E. Revell moved, Mr Woodford seconded, and it was carried — " That in the opinion of this meeting any extension of the Northern line must be by the West Coast, and that the Hon. Minister of Public Works be notified of the same." Carried. The meeting then adjourned.