Central Railway Line
LARGE LAND PURCHABE
[PBB UITITKD PRBBB ASSOCIATION.] Wbllingtox, April 21.
Thii afternoon the Minister for Public Works received a telegram from Mr W. Butler, the Natiye land Purchase ' '«m» misstoner, stating that the two chiefs, Topia Turoa and Wiremu Turea, who had previously refused to sign the deed of sale for & block of land in the King Country, along the route of the North Island Trunk railway, had now done so, and that arrangements for the purchase of the block bj Government were com* pleted. The block is known as the Haimaranui and oentains 400,000 acres of fair land. The Public Works Department hare in good course of progress a road from Pipiriki, a Tillage some 4is* tance up the Wanganui River, to Ohaknane, a point where the Trunk railway touches. When the contracts for the North Island railway are again progress* ing, the most of the material for the in* terior parts ander construction will be sent to Pipiriki, up the Waaganui River, by a specially-improved steamer.
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 134, 22 April 1886, Page 2
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171Central Railway Line Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 134, 22 April 1886, Page 2
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