EAST COAST RAILWAY
WAIHI-TAURANGA SCHEME. CONTRACT TO BE LET. The following letter has been forwarded to the Bay of JPJenty Development league by ilr F. W. Furkert, Engineer-iii-Chief and Under-Secretary of the Public Works Department:— “By direction of the Minister for Publio . -Work«. -I -have to i advise you that every effort is being made to expedite the completion of plans for the portion of the railway still untouched between Waiiii and Tauranga. You will realise that for a contract involving some hundreds of .thousands of pounds a great deal of information must be provided for the contractor. The matter is being hurried on as much as possible. “A considerable number of plans are already lithographed, and immediately they are all in hand and the contract documents prepared, the same will be advertised. It is difficult to give an exact date, but I should say that :t should he within two or three months.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11437, 6 February 1923, Page 7
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154EAST COAST RAILWAY New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11437, 6 February 1923, Page 7
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