THE KAIPARA RAILWAY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14819, 24 October 1911, Page 5

THE KAIPARA RAILWAY.

Sir, The reference in your paper of this day to the unnecessary delays and expenses on, and of ICaipara railway traffic caused by the adoption of the long and wrong rout makes it hard for those who from the first urged the short, easy, and obvious foreshore route to avoid the old " told you so " retort. To turn the line down to the city,at Mount Eden 'is only_ a little less bad than as at present via Newmarket, and was proposed bv the late Sir A. J. Cadman, when Minister for Railways, who urged that it was well worth spending £100,000 for even so much gain. When Auckland realises the importance and possibilities of the northern traffio she may also see the desirability of runninga line past. Henderson up one of. the easy slopes of. the Waitakere ranges, and on to the West Coast, a total run from town of loss than 20 miles to the healthy,' grand, and unsurpassable West Coast, , Orakei, in comparison, is not worth considering; anyway. we. are too late on the market; and Orakei ■will never be a slum, even if the city does not buy it. The astounding and outstanding fact is that Auckland does not know there is a West ' Coast, grand, salubrious, and empty, close at her doors'. R. Cranweu,.