MILLIONS FOR RAILWAYS.
IMPORTANT DE¥LHj<i)i>i\iENTiS IN "- ! BH"OIS£fiIA. j : fteuter's Agency is informed tdiat tlaf Jintasli^youtlr Africa. Company has de" cided -to'^xpend two million pounds on railways m It-kodesia. This is one of the results of the .tour re^iiUy undertaken by the directors «of -Ihe-Ohaitered Company; who recogjijse thafcheap and rapid -transport is urgently necessary for t?Ue- farther development oi 'the country. ... . ; .. Oi tJif "above-meaibioued* sum one million WiU-b'd^ekpbuagd-itofieaTatdy, suuU it is expected that t-he work to be" done for-fchUtiamtounfWlll be. c'6mpl«A by (he' : MM .6hf« ys«i'. Itnv-m fndudil W cLstructiou of the Cape-td)Gairb liu^iway jup to Victoa-ia Falls and 'the cost of the steel' <bridgo -.iwhioh. willhapan; Zambesi at that point. . . ' The lirsfc- million pounds will-also-, pay for the relaying of the Vryburg-Mafeking line wilh rails uuaform iviih Si« {jfcet of. "the-Rliodesiaii railways, the oonstt'uction of a.branch luiofx-om Gwelo to ( Selukwe, a 4^%?° S Bula,-! Avayo to I^wando'(rO(7 males), a, branch. froHU.Si&sbury^ito Gwelg* (30 ,nxiles), 4nd-e/jUju^iy.erinipi-ijyeinenls ouitj^e Btdra-Um-» taU section neur 'Fo'nWvilla m oi'der; to strengthen that^linie against the annual -floods- which haYe/ini^lits past greatly interrupted tnMc. ' " "4 A , * By the end of 1903 the second sum oi probably orarfujl^on- pounds will be stoic-, tioued for ; «» purpose of carrying (he* Cape-tu>Ca,lfo / 'line north of lihe^ainbesi;'' a distance joi 300 miles, m which region very extensive discoveries of copper, lead!; iiud zinc have '"Keen "made. When ihß' «H>rk— 4a contemplation has been carried outf'Rhpd^i&^yUl have a total of' oyeir 2500 miles of l-ailway. ■" '■'<■'
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9638, 13 January 1903, Page 4
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242MILLIONS FOR RAILWAYS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9638, 13 January 1903, Page 4
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