BIG DAY FOR GISBORNE
RAILWAY LIKE OPENED (P.A.) GISBORNE, September 7. A crowd estimated at nearly 10,(XX) assembled in perfect spring weather this morning to witness the departure of the first passenger train from Gisborne. The ceremony was described as a semi-official one. since the line has not yet been taken over by the Railway Department, but no official recognition could have vested it with greater importance to the people of the Gisborne district, who saw in the departure of the train the fulfilment of many years of deferred hopes. The Minister of Railways, the Hon. R. Semple, disclosed that the line from Napier to Gisborne had cost just over £6,000,000, of which nearly half was incurred in the construction of the Gis-borne-Waikokopu section; Had it not been for the opening of the railway, he said, Gisborne would probably have been cut off from the rest of the Dominion, as, in view of the rubber shortage, it was unlikely that any heavy service cars would be left on the road in sis months’ time.
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Evening Star, Issue 24293, 7 September 1942, Page 2
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174BIG DAY FOR GISBORNE Evening Star, Issue 24293, 7 September 1942, Page 2
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