EAST COAST RAILWAY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 148, 21 June 1912, Page 3

EAST COAST RAILWAY.

The secretary of the Auckland Railways Xieaguc (Mr. R. E. Hunt) supplies the following progress reports qn Ea=J Coast railway construction : — Gi>borne->lotu Branch. —The rails on this line have reached Raknuroa. just past llalkot"s store, 3S miles from borne. This is an extension "of nine miles beyond Otoko. Further extension is delayed, pending erection of a brid.se at Rakauroa across the Waikohu River. Given favourable weather, the Public Works service beyond Otoko to the railhead at Rakauroa will be •"resumed in three or four weeks' time. Gisborne Southwards- —Tully four miles of the formation of this railway, from Patutahi station towards Xcrat.apa. station, has boon completed. Over 70 men are engaged on the work. Some delay still exists in the location oi tlie junction -with the Gisborne-'Motu branch, owing to the rival claims of Kind's Road and Makaraka routes. Xgatapa should prove an important centre, as several roads converge there, e.g., tc Ormond. Otoko, Tahora. Rakauroa, etc. The engineers are to be congratulated on the excellent progress that is being made.