THE EAST COAST RAILWAY

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5489, 30 March 1910, Page 2

THE EAST COAST RAILWAY

Ihe Hon. E. McKeaua, Mia* for Public Works, made to imfo^m statement regarding the 1m Qg railway before he left for tW MM, on Saturday, lie intimate! fct k would turn the first sod of the ftfVKtion, between Taurangaaftd.Tlfkk, in a week or two. EngfaKn h&i leady started work on titf MW Ik He decidedly objected to buldiaf » dated sections of railway attrii, bnt this one should be puabed m fitcut delay. There was alargtfe*t4 very fine country between Oyrtftid Tauranga waiting to be opeMtJfir rail, besides which thjt wctionjfM the very easiest facilitea for qiint* tion. MiMcKenzitsaidhebtd^Wl the Department would oltißttt^ri* mence working north of Tavnajp,! well as south,' thus coanectitg. «i Waihi at an early dat^ TVJb angaTePuke extensioi wo«M My the railway to within about Mali of Eotorut,, after which that ivptlfci rentre could easily be linked ap^t the East Coast The line fro*6» borne to Motu was bang gwW ahead with all speed. Tbe Mutt also said that the GoTenawßt IM under consideration the %M»doati extending the railway froejß QitkoM to Napier, so linking up the vhall^ the East Coast from AneUaodk Wellington, but at pneeot be cci say nothing definite on tine poiafcr Herald.