COMPLETION OF THE WHANGAREI-BAY OF ISLANDS SECTION OF THE NORTHERN TRUNK LINE. See special Article, Page 45. The line between Whangarei and Kawakawa, Bay of Islands, has now been linked up, and the new year will see a through service between the two places. The work has been so gradu, not to say slow, that it is hard for the Northern folk to realise now that they have a decent length of line which does not lead from somewhere to nowhere in particular, The event is one of the most important and progress marking milestones that have been set up since settlement began. (1) The bridge on which the Grahamtown extension crosses the whangarei river. To allow vessels to pass up to the town wharf it is constructed as a drawbridge. (2) Mixing concrete for culverts on the Kaikohe extension on which the Public Works officials are now concentrating their energies. Kaikohe is the key to a district which would bear comparison with any in the Dominion, and when this centre is tapped the revenue-producing capability will be beyond question. (3) The Railway Wharf at Grahamtown, or according to its new name. Onerahi. By means of the extension of the line to this place a good berthage of four fathoms at low water is secured. (4) Morning tea on the works. (5) The present Railway Wharf at Whangarei 'with boats alongside loading coal and timber. (6) The place where all the ballast comes from, about five miles from Kawakawa. (7) The head of the fertile Rama Rama Valley, two miles from Towai, the point to which the Railway Department has assumed coutrol, the rest being still in the hands of the public works Department. (8 and 9) Ballasting the line near Rama Rama.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 23, 7 December 1910, Page 24

COMPLETION OF THE WHANGAREI-BAY OF ISLANDS S ECTION OF THE NORTHERN TRUNK LINE. See special Article, Page 45. The line between Whangarei and Kawakawa, Bay of Islands, has now been linked up, and the new year will see a through service between the two places. The work has been so gradu, not to say slow, that it is hard for the Northern folk to realise now that they have a decent length of line which does not lead from somewhere to nowhere in particular, The event is one of the most important and progress marking milestones that have been set up since settlement began. (1) The bridge on which the Grahamtown extension crosses the whangarei river. To allow vessels to pass up to the town wharf it is constructed as a drawbridge. (2) Mixing concrete for culverts on the Kaikohe extension on which the Public Works officials are now concentrating their energies. Kaikohe is the key to a district which would bear comparison with any in the Dominion, and when this centre is tapped the revenue-producing capability will be beyond question. (3) The Railway Wharf at Grahamtown, or according to its new name. Onerahi. By means of the extension of the line to this place a good berthage of four fathoms at low water is secured. (4) Morning tea on the works. (5) The present Railway Wharf at Whangarei 'with boats alongside loading coal and timber. (6) The place where all the ballast comes from, about five miles from Kawakawa. (7) The head of the fertile Rama Rama Valley, two miles from Towai, the point to which the Railway Department has assumed coutrol, the rest being still in the hands of the public works Department. (8 and 9) Ballasting the line near Rama Rama.