RAILWAY EXTENSION IN TARANAKI.
/ IBrTEI.EUttArn—rKKKS'ASSOCIATION". Stratford, April 1.. Sinco January: this year the Railway De- / partraon't has taken over from'the,;Public. Works Department twelve miles of railway iri%Taranaki:' V-To ; day another .'section. XHaii" , ,roa). of/.tho Stratford-Ongarhue: railway lis, opan for traffic; 'making a'distance completed , frpin the' Stratfo'ril, cud of sixteen miles.' The first: sod of this' railway, was turned by . the.'Hon. W. Hall-Jones?' about' six years' ■; ag0...,:: ; The Railway Department also, to-day, takes ' over '.branch / line, . wdiichjis a six-mile section/ ,There is 'a'largo • crushing'plant erected at .tlie . termiiius of ./ this/section, . which, will supply'tho l Railway Department , with' ballast, and : tho local '. bodies., with metal-for road .purposes., ' . The ' first:;,sod; .of .'; : this ;.]ihe>, was':.turned .jy ;Mri . Jennings, M.P. ,for Egmont, three years ago.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 162, 2 April 1908, Page 5
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120RAILWAY EXTENSION IN TARANAKI. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 162, 2 April 1908, Page 5
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