NOT WARRANTED
AUCKLAND RAILWAY SCHEME
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day.
A proposal to deviate tho North Auckland railway line by a. tunnel under the city from. Beach road to the Morningside Station has been abandoned. The Hon. W. B. Taverner, Minister of Bailways, states that the project has been fully reviewed after a persual of the reports by the General Manager of Bailways. An electrification scheme for the Auckland suburban area would have to be adopted, including the lines between Papakura on the south and Helensville on the north, at a cost of approximately £174,570, bringing the gross estimated expenditure of the wholo scheme to £2,174,540.
Thore would be no marked economy as the result. Tho traffic did not warrant tho expenditure. It was unlikely that the construction of tho tunnel would have an influence on tho growth of the goods or passenger traffic sufficient to justify such a huge expenditure.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 15, 18 January 1930, Page 10
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