NORTH ISLAND TRUNK RAILWAY.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 56, 7 March 1889, Page 2

NORTH ISLAND TRUNK RAILWAY.

Thk Waitete contract on tho North Island trunk line is now, it may be said, completed, although the maintenance has fco go on for some time yet. The viaduct was " officially tested " the other day with three engines, trucks, and aP. W. staff. It stood up, of course, considering that Mr Robertson, the contractor's manager, had boen running .heavy material and ballast trains over it for four or five months past. It is a beautiful structure, and a fine piece of engineering skill and mechanical construction—one of the sights of Now Zealand public works, and one which, in conjunction with the Poro-o-torau Tunnel, will stand out prominently as a monument of the wasteful expend ituro oi our borrowed moneys. This line will not pay interest on "the cost for generations to come, and in the meantime thero lies so many hundreds of thousands of pounds on which we poor colonists have to pay interest. Such i 3 life, at least our life. One thing can be said, however, that no better work has over been clone in the country than on this lino, and ho contracts moro faithfully carried out. It is a pity not to sco the line kept busy, bub there is literally nothing to make it so.~(VVaikato CORRESI'ONDENT.)