The Daily Times. The oldest Manawatu journal: Established 1975. SATURDAY DEC. 29, 1883. THE GORGE RAILWAY.

Manawatu Times, Volume IX, Issue 1138, 29 December 1883, Page 2

The Daily Times. The oldest Manawatu journal: Established 1975. SATURDAY DEC. 29, 1883. THE GORGE RAILWAY.

The inaction. ,of the Government regarding thV-'railway , to. con#es Palmerston with Woodville is most surprising; That link will join the West and East Coast railway >'iectidns, and enable a vehicle to run from Napier to either ijTew Plymouth or Fozton. It is by connecting the isolated sections and making them into one system, that the railways will be made to payi As they are how, the minimnm of advantage only is gained. Yet theXfovernment continue to work

away at the Masterton"Woodville line with all the energy of Sisy* phuß, and with as little chance of making the line, pay for the next thirty jears as he had of accomplishing his task. They blindly refuse to recogni&e the fact that m about two years — long before their precious " trunk " line to Woodville is made — the private railway will be opened between Palmerston and Wellington; and that the Gorge section is the complement of the Nortb Island railways and will be a necessity sooner or later, as the East Coast traffic mrst go by the West Coast jto Wellington. Some time ago the late Public Works Minister informed the people of • PalmerstoiJiin reply to certain ieso» lutions cent- domi, that so soon as the work on the papier side was sufficiently ?,d vance(^ *° warrant it the Gorge, would be put m band m order to reach Woodville same time as the line from Niapier. So far so good. This gives the people of Manawatu something to work on. Why should not the matter be pressed upon the new Mi« nister from the same point of view ? He appears to have a thoroughly practical ttfrn of mhfd, and to be just the man to appreciate ,the business advantages- of joining the East and West Coasts; besides which, as he is not the member for Manawatu, -the obstacle which prevented the Hon. W. Johnstonfrom putting works m hand m this part of the colony does not exist. Mr Mitch elson represents a northern constituency, and consequently the political Mrs G-rundy does not now stand m the way of works m the vicinity._pf Manawafcu being put ia hand. '' «- •