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DARGAVILLE RAILWAY LINE. GOVERNMENTS TERMS SOUGHT. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, August 17. An invitation to the Government to formulate terms upon which the Dargaville railway and other abandoned railway branches will be handed over to private operations is to be extended to the acting-Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates) by the Auckland Chamber of Commerce. The request is being made at the suggestion of the people of Dargaville, who express the view that as the Government is unwilling to complete and operate _ the line an opportunity should be given to private enterprise. The council of the chamber had before it the terms recently announced by Mr Coates upon which the Government will hand over the uncompleted East Coast line to private enterprise. The chairman (Mr H. Turner) said that an enormous amount of money had been wasted as a result of the Dargaville line not being completed. No one with money or sense would consider leasing or purchasing the line under the Government’s conditions. Mr T. H. Bowie said that the position with regard to the Dargaville railway was different as no one had come forward expressing a wish to take the line over. In the case of the Gisborne line there was a definite body of people who wanted to operate the line. A motion asking the Government fox its terms was carried.
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Southland Times, Issue 22097, 18 August 1933, Page 7
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