Day for all to Remember.

Mr. A. T. Carroll, Chairman of the Wairoa County Council, joined with the Mayor in welcoming all the visitors who had come to do justice to a great and memorable occasion in Wairoa's history. It should be a day which all would remember during their time. He especially welcomed the Ministers and Members of Parliament, and Messrs. G. H. Mackley, General Manager of Railways, and J. Wood, Engineer-in-charge of the Public Works Department, and also those who had come from neighbouring districts to do honour to the occasion.

The district was most appreciative of the message sent by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, and of the confidence shown by the Government in its future in completing the Wairoa section of the East Coast Main Trunk line. He hoped that the whole line would be completed at a record early date.

The Hon. R. Semple and the officers and men of his Department deserved the greatest credit for the speed with which the link had been completed; to the Railways Department, in its turn, the public of the East Coast must extend its confidence and support in order to ensure the success of the line in operation.