THE TAUPO RAILWAY ROUTE.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 5, 1 July 1882, Page 3

THE TAUPO RAILWAY ROUTE.

| '[by tklbgbaph^ • : ' AVokland, June 28. Mi* Al'ix vt Walker, fn a letter to the-Heiuld, sTfttfs that Mr Firth's alternative route, the course, of which f fplegraph to you, iV impracticable, owing to a chaotic mass of mountains. rapid rivers, and mountain canons. Mr Walker suggest* anoth r'rbute as follovt-s : — I do 1 not, know whether it is generally known, out alraady a fly-, in°"SUr v ey has been made for* ja liv€ rotiud the eastern side 'of the lake Taupo, and could a railway be b'rou lit economically to Tuu^o or Tsuipohaeraruru, the staticin Of tu»i h'Aj'thern end of the Lake, ■"•arid there "'continued around the eastern' 3hore to the southern '■pndt lrom thence (Tpkano) ■ the country rises by « gentle incline [to the desert of On- tapi^ running ■ri?bt through the valleybf th<»|Upper I Wuikato or Hangipo. havir.g Kairaan-i awa Mountains on t!ie eascerh and ToßfCarirov AnrWhoe," and ' l-v^iipehij^ i Ac- on the" western side Here at I"Oiietapu ; tlie sonthern watershed us ;rp>. that of the. northern, and from 'this spot, about 35 6r 40 miles,' to tlie Aufua' liiver, Which runs southward ■ and junctions with the Manawatu -near Fitzherberr," th«re—are few, . if any, e^igtin.eeTit^'difficulties wlia ever. | The Aurua Valley has a graduil fall, !and'j>r.<?BerttV«vfiry fAcHitytor k railway, ami inhere/ a l^ne made} dowA' tliis valley it would bring- oue ib close proximity" fo'Halcombe, to l<Vildin», : tv to'ii/lrarbert, anclJt^jPalmersion, all l d la.. .fir near the Foxtcn and Wan^anui line .of rail,w^jfc., iind to, within a reasonable distance* by co'a'cii 1 "Hi the termination of tl*e e;;istin^ iN'a'f.ier railway, as also fliat af the VVellinjiton and VVaiparapa one,*" >v '"