THE MAIN TRUNK RAILWAY.
The Main Trunk line was authorised by an Act in ISS-t. The lirst sod was turned in IKSS. The total expenditure to Hist March last was ,i2,l 12,978, an average expenditure of .0)7.408 per annum. In 1905, v.200,000 was spent, and last year £W),I)W. ' The rail heads are now twenty-eight miles apart. In throe months that will be reduced to twentyfour miles. Early in the new year ten miles would remainTo be completed, and by the close of the summer, given lino weather this should be reduced tn four. The first through train should, says Mr Blow, Under-Secretary to tile Public Works Department, rim for certain in 1908.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 25 July 1907, Page 4
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112THE MAIN TRUNK RAILWAY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 25 July 1907, Page 4
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