THE GORGE RAILWAY QUESTION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 104, 28 March 1884, Page 2

THE GORGE RAILWAY QUESTION.

| } „ „ „, tc> . ... , T^e^ Feilding. Star -pitUUshes verbatim the "two telegrams wliich appeared m the Palmerston papers m Janiiarj last; the one ironi tue-dfeputai^fp.n, Messrs Linton and Macarthur,. jircl the. other from the United Press Association, and it proceeds to explain the position more m detail as follows : — " At present the Gorge Kailway, as authorised l>y P^rliament, is«.the line between Bunnkrthorpc and Woodville, which is already surveyed, and though, if the line Win Palmerstou to Ash u rat were made, itis most probable that the section" between Bunnythorpe and AsburM; would not be completed for soujie years to come, yet, as a matter of fact, the heading " Gorge Kail-way"-to tlie telegram about the Pal--hierston:Aslnir.sb line is a complete misnomer, and- so far as |i|- conveys the idea -that* trie 1 Minister pi-onu'sed t&e' construction of the line , through,* tlie Gorge, i«' a ..gross misrepVesentatioh. The whole; of ! the' secbiicl t'ele^r'am is iitterly incorrect and unauthorised by eithe»i of the; membeW/of the'depii'tatiou The deputat^QU: only, as^e^tfor. the PalinersCoii::Ashurst.' f JtinjE| ,. an-d.. , ', obtained \ a promist of the, _„stn t r i vey- : of > jty, vpnd:? ithe; favdra|)l'e ..cpusi^r^ti^.o/.^^^i^sjteit, who, : of ,'coiirse, ',{ .cqaildt, (aaot-f^ind the Cabin-et ,, by. „ji y/ d.efinrte ( vproni)sei to put "a snm on the Estimates to cojiv stiucfc the rail way k iQuii reader? will observe that' in the first telegran*vi it ' particularly stated that, |f JVtv. JBlac^ett would be,- instructed -,. to .purvey thb 'line with „.,;£?,, vie W).? . only, "sliQwirig tliat the pr.oip,isp wa^. njt?t ot th c" d efinit'e eh aracter . af te^wavj js, repre- . sented. What was' obrafned by tl-je deputation, -vvas the survey and tbje fiii-OraWe bortßideration of Ministers io the coustructitm of the Palmerstork- ■ Ashutsi 'libe. ■'= The 'ijistrict Engineer -is now preparing an nppcoximate esiiif mate-oi US cost/ a Islifficient survey fpr this purpose haying been, niade^sonie years a^o. 1 The*Uetaiio^' ; 'worismg survey; 'which the Manawattx Tiniescomplains i f sjiot being made, is, as everyone ku/fs- npt) Accessary until tlie vote for 'the line' is passed by Parliament. , .... „.,v , T j