ROTORUA-TAUPO RAILWAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 282, 26 November 1921, Page 7

ROTORUA-TAUPO RAILWAY.

LINE AGAIN SUPPORTED. (By Telcpraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON. Friday. Recommended to the Government for favourable consideration is tb* decree of tbe special committee which considered •our petitions praying for the construction of a railway from Rotorua to Taupo, as recommended in 1020 by this committee and a Royal Commitssion. The committee's recommendation was submitted to the House this afternoon. Appreciation "W-afi expressed I>V Mr. Hockly, who eaid the report was on all fours with the recommendation of last year. The objective now was to carry it a step further on the lines of the policy laid down during the recess by the Minister of Public Works, which was to the effect that the Public Works. Railway and Agricultural "Departments should all weigh the -practicability of the project before it was undertaken. The suggestion of the petitioners was that provisional inquiries be made now fo that, -the work could he expedited when the time was opportune. Uc emphasised that the Forestry Department had decreed that within seven years a railway would be necessary to market timber from the Stale forests stretching from Rotorua to the Waiotupu Valley, where there was also a promising: soldier settlement at Reparoa.

In the few minute* remaining to table the report Mr. Nguta urjred the Minister of to exercise a little more imagination. -vvlu!e Mr. Young stressed the point that the settlers were prepared to contribute .£loo.Gofl touarJs the coat of the line.