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QUESTION OF SURVEY EARLY ACTION URGED Further discussion concerning representations to the Government urging the completion ol! the Gis-borne-Taneatua railway took place at last week's meeting of the Gisborne Chamber ol' Commerce following the reading ol' correspondence between the Gisborne, Auckland and Tauranga chambers by the secretary Mr M. J. AVhite .states the Gisbo rn e He r a Id. A letter despatched by the secretary to the Auckland chamber in reply to a request lor data as to the prospective revenue earning capacity of the line, pointed out that the line if it was completed must be dealt with similarly to other main lines throughout New Zealand, that was from the development point ol view. The development of New Zealand had reached a point where the railways, paid interest on capital and the completion of a gap on a i main arterial line must in duo course also conform to this economic a.speet. The letter stated that if it were the. Government's, intention to em/ bark on a post-war railway construction programme partially, if not wholly to assist rehabilitating unskilled'returned mcn 4 the best, way to approach the matter would be from this particular angle—rthe completion of the. only gap in the national railway system. The chamber offered the suggestion to the Auckland Chamber that to invoke the assistance of the Associated Chambers it might be possible to. make the matter the subject of a remit at the annual conference in November, and the delegates to the conference might constitute themselves the deputation to visit Gisborne en route and thus make themselves conversant with the area through which the lino would travel. '
In a later communication with the Auckland Chamber mentiou was made of the initial prc-construction survey of the line. It was stated that it would take about a year to complete the survey and unless the matter was. put in hand at an early date there was. a strong likelihood that other railways, or hydro-elec-tric construction or main highway work would be put on the programme and the completion of the line side-tracked. Therefore, an early start on the survey work was urged.
Correspondence from the Tauranga Chamber stated that that chamber had unanimously agreed to support the action to be taken. r , After a short discussion the meeting adopted a motion by Mr R. W< J. Edwards to await the reply from the Auckland Chamber regarding the early survey of the route and on receipt of it the railway committee to go further into the matter.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 3, 29 August 1944, Page 2
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424EAST COAST RAIL LINK Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 3, 29 August 1944, Page 2
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