NEW RAILWAY OPENED.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19311, 16 May 1928, Page 8

NEW RAILWAY OPENED.

NORTH AUCKLAND BRANOHS| H ri (fbibb issocuno* / jrtlMMJ'%.''; f the? North way system, a lengthos*toM||jl miles, was taken over liy too fi*»ij|| Department to-day, Jj§jm mony being performed Minister, assisted by Mrs addition to an address byithe xfflg Minister, appropriate delivered by Messrs F. L J«f%' W§ of Dargaville. L. J. BKMft'94»l Whangarei, V. Trounson, the Hobson County Cou]W,;&4B|S Harding, president of ™B *fflg Chamber of Commerce* Witt iW m MP. for Kaipara, also'Messrtj* M Bell and W. Jones, M.P/'sfbrtt£r|li of Islands and Marsden wsWotty^ The day was beautifully fIW» Wffl M ceremony was very largely'JWHl After the ceremony the Tf'WySjl entertained at afternoon w'?slm ladies of the district. , JMm Work in connexion witfl tWi||B has beeh in progress years, and has been most m»Wm costly owing to the nature of t»Mßs| try. There is one large Mp ß, »ssi|l addition to a cylinder bridge M® | Northern Wairoa river near M puni, numerous smaller ones. - *« j are five stations on fovl*ffi*i J| Waiotira, which is theJ»f" q M the Whangarei-Auckland I«J*r,9SB principal. . The whole of the rowg stock and engines are nft ";«'J£si The line has been open wtW««fJH ends of the section under the .mm of the Public Works ?epart»eW|g about two years, during ** K £iM& considerable trade has °£ J SB§ the carriage of stock, manur?»||| passengers. > *}■■ Kirikopuni is the centre of »M fertile block of country, and «J JB road north to Kaikohe ««*«»• there. An up-to-date tt has also been recently completflMg|| will be running next year. ""SSflf pletion of this line brings PfiMf within an hour's easy run of wav system bv a good motor «BS| The works for the completion PT«|j line between Kirikopuni and M«»g| villa are now being rapidly P" 8 " 8 and should be completed undcrjHJ years, when another 13 miles Jjftffl added to the section, and linked no with the Kaihu sectWKffl| Dargaville to Donnelly's where it' leads to the ™ nm lJ!Bm son kauri park and Waipoua ton J^