FIFTY YEARS AGO

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22523, 14 September 1936, Page 6

FIFTY YEARS AGO

KINGSLAND RAILWAY. LOOK Discussion of the proposed railway loop-line to link Auckland and JUfIKS* land has .been going on for 50 years, the following article having appeared the New Zealand Herald of Septemoe 14, 1886: _ , i; . "The Under-Secretary for Pu° llo Works went yesterday over the pro* posed route for the western loop-*" 1 connecting the Auckland ran*? station with Kingsland, on the * para line. He was accompanied by so olt the promoters of the line who prepared plans showing the route and the tunnelling reauired. route has been already described, P of the scheme being a tunnel * ID the Ponsonbv Road, and then in siting the Surrey Hills estate. I'nder-Secretary has not expressed a opinion on the merits or dements the proposed scheme, but will no ff in a position to place the matter cwa before the Minister of Public « for consideration. He subseque visited Cox's Creek bridge, accompan by the district engineer, so that the trouble comes before the Works Department, as it is sure to sooner or later, over the supposed ~, of riparian rights, the authorities t«e able to meet the petitioners their own ground."