PIRONGIA RAILWAY BOARD
ONLY FIVE NOMINATIONS. ALL PLEDGED TO TERMINATE SCHEME. Nominations for the five seats on the Te Awamutu-Pirongia Railway Board closed yesterday at noon with the returning officer, Mr C. W. Halite, of Pirongia. Only the requisite number of nominations to constitute the Board Avere received, viz., those of Charles Monrath Alexander, Walter Henry Bell, Francis Quin, Samuel Christie Macky and Thomas Steel, and consequently these gentlemen have been elected. As all five have pledged themselves * to wind up the Board’s affairs with the least possible delay it may be taken for granted that very little more Avill be heard, at least for some time to come, of the scheme for constructing a light railAvay betAveen Te AAvamutu and Pirongia.
The Board Avill, of course, have to ' strike and collect a rate over the Avhole district to wipe off liabilities incurred by the promoters, including the. cost of the engineering survey, the cost of the election and other incidentals. We are informed that this liability is in the neighbourhood of £4OO, but at the first meeting of the Board no doubt a definite pronouncement will be made as to the exact financial position.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1424, 8 November 1923, Page 4
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195PIRONGIA RAILWAY BOARD Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1424, 8 November 1923, Page 4
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