TE RAU-A-MOA.
The Kawhia Main Trunk survey party from *-he Public Works Department have been encamped at Tc Rau-a-moa for the last week, and it is believed that a satisfactory route has been found between Opaiau and Kawa. The proposed line follows a tributary of the Oparau stream into Mr Turret's section, along the main coach road. Thence it tunnels the range into the Kariu valley, from whence again another tunnel will probably connect with the Okoko valley four miles by metalled road from Te Rau-a-Moa. The latter valley has valuable deposits of coal which are believed to be of the finest quality for smelting purposes. To anyone interested in geology the Okoko valley presents a veritable paradise, as a stream flows for chains over coal beds, etc. It is through this valley the railway may run, and, as the petitioners pointed out ten years or more ago, to the Minister for Railways, this line would pay, if only to gain access to these valuable coal deposits. From Okoko to Kawa the line is through easy fern country, which is capable of being converted into some of the finest agricultural land of the Waikato.
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Waipa Post, Volume IV, Issue 198, 25 March 1913, Page 3
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194TE RAU-A-MOA. Waipa Post, Volume IV, Issue 198, 25 March 1913, Page 3
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