Trial Railway Survey
jiiiai uuiivj The Works Department has begun a trial survey to determine whether it is possible to build a railway from the present Bay of Plenty line at Edgecumbe, 45 miles south to Murupara, the probable centre of big sawmilling and pulp industries, which will develop from the Kaingaroa forest. Sixteen surveyors, some of them engineering students on vacation, are already at work at Te Teko and Matahina, and this number will soon be increased. Several surveys of routes may be made, but it is hoped to have one substantially completed by February. The primary purpose of the Murupara railway is to privide the means of bringing out quickly and easily large quantities of timber which will be cut out of the Kaingaroa forest in the next 50 years. The railway will also feed the proposed State paper mill near Murupara, and will serve the fast-de-veloping soldier settlement district at Galatea.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 27 December 1947, Page 6
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154Trial Railway Survey Wanganui Chronicle, 27 December 1947, Page 6
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