SURVEYING A RAILWAY ROUTE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 49, 27 February 1913, Page 3

SURVEYING A RAILWAY ROUTE

KAWHIA TO MAIN TRUNK. (01 TEL2OIUPH— SPECIAL TO THE POST.) .AUCKLAND, "This Day. A party under Mr. L. B. Campbell, of the Public Works Department, arrived in Kawhia yesterday for the object of making a reconnaisance survey of the railway Toute from Kawhia Harbour to the Main Trunk line. Their mission is in fulfilment of a promise given last session by the Hon. W. Fraser (Minister of Public Works) to a deputation ■of Kawhia and King Country delegates that a flying survey of possible TOutee would be undertaken before Parliament meets again. Reconnaisance work will probably occupy the party for six w^eks or more. The first woTk will be the exploring of the much-discuesed Kawhia to Te Awamutu, Kawa, or Otorohanga route ifwith 6pecial reference to its continuance to Putaruru. Such a railway would bring the Waipa and Upper Waikato Valleys, together with the whole of the inland King Country, into direct communication -with this port, the distance from Oparau to the Main Trunk -railway being only 18 miles in •an airline, and from Oparau to deep water berthage at Kawhia a further six. The other routes to be explored will be one right through the Moerangi Block to Frankton Junction opening up a large 'area of country and approaching neat to the head waters of Raglan and Aotea Harbours. , Yet another is from the direction of Waitomo. FIGHTING TUBERCULOSIS PURE MILK FOR HOSPITALS. (ST TKLEGEArH-^SPECIAL TO THE POST.) ♦ CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. One of the resolutions i arrived at by the Conference on Tuberculosis reads as follows : " That all hospital boards, make it a condition prior to the acceptance of any tender for supply of milk to their .institution that the supplying herds be examined and passed as free from tuberculosis by officers under the direction' and control of the Chief Veterinarian." Mr. J. D. Hall, referring to -the resolution at the Hospital Board meeting yesterday, said that this was a most important matter. In the Old Country a Royal Commission had investigated this very point, and there could be no doubt that cows suffering from the disease gave impure milk. The board should set a standard in this matterand should refuse to buy any milk from a dairy where the cows had not been thoroughly tested. Doubtless some of the suppliers would say that no disease had ever been found in their herds, but that would not suffice. All cows should be thoroughly examined, and that should be made a condition before the board accepted, a tender for the supply of milk to any institution under its control. He would suggest that the matter should bo referred to DOth the Hospital and Public Health Committees. Mr. Turnbull endorsed Mr. Hall's remarks,'and said that all- dairymen tendering should be informed that the board would impose this condition. . Tho board decided to adopt the resolution. , ' , _____ ("press association.]