LITTLE PROGRESS
TANEATUA-OPOTIKI LINE
MINISTER'S EX PL AN AT lON
"When the Railway Estimates were under discussion in Parliament last week Mr W. Sullivan, M.P., said he desired to point out, In connection with the vote of £100 for the Taneatua-Opotiki line, that the vote last year was £2000 and the amount expended £63.
The Hon. Mr Webb: That ay as merely for fixing up the surveys.
Mr Sullivan said that lie took it that the construction work was still under consideration. The line had definitely been promised to the people of Gpotiki by the late Prime Minister, and a definite undertaking that it would be gone on Avitli had been given by the Minister of Transport when he was Minister of Public Works. The line would serve a fertile piece of the Bay of Plfonty district, and would also be a feeder line to some extent for East Coast stock being sent to the Waikato and other areas. In 1938 a survey camp was established at the Taneatua end of the gorge, but the surveyors left shortly after the election, and nothing further had been done. The promise should be fulfilled, even though it might be necessary to postpone the work until after the war.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 77, 13 July 1942, Page 5
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