RIMUTAKA DEVIATION.
PROGRESS OF SURVEYS. [bx telegraph.—special reporter.] WELLINGTON. Saturday. The Minister for Public Works, Hon J. G. Coates, made a statement in the House of Representatives regarding the surveys of the Rimutaka deviation. He said that the old coach route had been surveyed and tho Tauherenikau route had been surveyed. The surveyors were now working on tho Wainui-o-mata x-oute. The surveys of the two routes had been submitted to the Railway Department for an estimate of tho cost of haulage and so forth. The Railway Department had also been asked to work out the cost of the electrification of the existing route. Mr. Coates added that he did not feel that there was need for him to comment on the reports at the present stage. He could say that*if a more level road were needed—a road which would cost less for haulage—appearances pointed to the Tauherenikau route as beinp the more favourable of the routes already investigated.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18180, 28 August 1922, Page 8
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