GISBORNE RAILWAY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 8, 7 December 1935, Page 2

GISBORNE RAILWAY.

QUESTION OF COMPLETION

GISBORNE, Dec. 6. With camp sites fully established, access tracks and service roads all in fair order, and needing only a little attention to bring them into a state fit for regular use, and a great deal of formation work actually completed and consolidated by years of weathering since the suspension of activity in 1930, the Gisborne-Waikokupu section of the East Coast Main Trunk railway stands ready for the resumption of construction work in terms of the pledge given to the district by the Labour Government. Three months’ work along the route of tlie line would prepare the way for the occupation of the camps and the manning of the various jobs. When work ceased for the Christmas holidays in December, 1930, there were over 750 men engaged between Waikokopu and Muriwai, and six large camps were filled with workers and their families. To-day there are not more than 50 or 60 of the old railway construction employees still in the camps, and the camps themselves have lost many of the huts. Plant and gear havfe been shipped away and will have to be re-assembled and trained men will be needed to supervise activities.