NORTH AUCKLAND RAILWAY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 781, 2 April 1910, Page 7

NORTH AUCKLAND RAILWAY.

f'ONLT ONE EOUTE/' SATS HON. V" ... .8.. : _ Eaferring, at Dargaville to the qnes-hon.-of the -route, of the North Auckland Eailway, the Hon. E. if'Kenzie (Minister for.Public Works) renaarked that a lot of nonsense and flap-doodle, had been talked, i'and. that was about the full sum and'substance of the agitation raised. Hβ felt that he knew more about the details of the case than -the editors of the' Auckland pa-pers; likewise he coiild follow the agitation: from Auckland right- through the South Island, and could, if ho chose, wll them .the ;gentlemen responsible. There was, ae far as he could judge, only one route \o be taken. There was this, however, to be said in support of the case for the west of M'Carroll's Gap^the line could -. be carried from the vicinity of Taogihua across io Whangarci, and therelinked.. with the Whangarei-Kawakawa. section,. thus making a saving in con-. stractip.il' of do miles ol Tailway. That was one of the .questions which they would have to answer when the Royal Commission began its inquiry. It would be some considerable time before the railway reached M'Carxoll's, and the Boyal Commission would consider tho chifrstion of the route- northwards, from that point.- The Commission would consist of impartial men, and would include both engineers and commercial men, who would be able to judge the commercial valtre of the land which the railway would traverse. Ho felt that the Government had been justified in altering the route westward from Topuni, ae the original survey had been made 23 years ago, and the country to the west had in that time been, more closely, eertled, and very much changed. •