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NOTA " BRANCH, BUT AN
" EXTENSION."
TO THE EDITOR OF THE MERCURY.
SIR-In connection with what you have
already put before your readers one curious
instance of what doctors call " unconscious
celebration," may be cited. In Mr. Pil-
lingers minute for the Attorney-General,
dated November 5, 1890, occur these words
-"It is of great importance in securing
the construction of the railway that the
extension asked for and approved by the
Government is safely secured, to the room
play." The italics are those. Any man
of common-sense would '. know that a
line carried to Mount Lyell, whether from
Zeehan to" Rosebery, would not be
a "half but an "extension and the
¡ptSmmf^Sttá shows that the writer's brain
was, for the moment at least, free from the
influence of the ingenious sophistry of the
Emu Bay railway promoters. If they have
a right to go to Mount Lyell they have an
equal right to go to Strahan, leaving
Zeehan a mile or two distant on one side or
the other. Would Mr. Lewis or anyone else
contend that such an extension was a
" branch line " in the terms of the Act or
the intention of Parliament? Yours, etc,
SCRUTATOR.
October 26.
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