A NEW RAILWAY.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 298, 21 June 1909, Page 5

A NEW RAILWAY.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION;] . " - WELLINGTON, to-day. The Government has decided upon the westward route for the North of Auckland line. It will traverse the Beckerstaft'e estate, and go through. McCarrollV gap, and over the Northern .Wairoa river, which* is th^re navigable north of Dargaville, joining the original rox;te in the Mangakahia Valley. Tlmj Minister for Railways says the evidence is overwhelming in favor of this route It will serve three times the population and there is more timber and more stock.. Coal has been found not far a-way, and will he reported on.