THE NORTHERN EXTENSION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11840, 1 May 1909, Page 5

THE NORTHERN EXTENSION.

| (Special %o Herald.) AUCKLAND' this day. At the close of business at tho meet ing of the Chamber of Commerce yes ..terday, notice, of motion was given b; Mr (t. L. Peacock for next meeting, t< tho effect tliat in the opinion of the Chamber the establishment of railwaj communication between Auckland anc Gisborne by a line extending fron Waihi through the Bay of Plenty dis tricts, and connecting* w'ith. the GL*" 5 bonie-Motu line is a public work, whicr' is in, the. interests of this provincia; district, and should be commenced witl"' the l£ast possible delay, starting, froir{ the Waihi ; end of the present line. Mr Peacock also intends to submit r motion urging upon the Parliamentary representative... of Auckland the pro vincial and national importance . of thi: ! question, .and asking them to do theii 'best to .get the line surveyed and auth; orised, and a sum placed : on the -estimates for the early comiriencement o? the. work.

A further, notice of .motion .was given, "that as part .of thin wiirk,. survey.? should be made with a ' view to thl simultaneous construction of ii braricb line connecting Rotorua at the most convenient point with the Waihi-Gis, borne line.'' *.-'.. •■'■*) Mr PeacOcke, ,as president of th< Auckland Railway League,- has received from the North* of Auckland Railway^ League coiiios of . resolutions carried by that body. Tliese, resolutions urge the Minister for Public Works to get the North of Auckland main trunk linr opened to Manugaturoto by next,'summer, and to have «. further- authorisation of the line made to Hokiaijga. 7 A further resolution' stoted that there was a feeling throughout the north that the amount of its resources and the long delay which had prevented development justified an appeal for increased expenditure, arid .an ' annual, appropriation of £160,000 for the extension of the line authorised was urged.