By Rail to Taupo.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 381, 23 October 1908, Page 2

By Rail to Taupo.

A BIG A report of the Naive Land Oommission upon an agreement between tbe Tong, riro Timber Company end tbe sevural Maori owners of e large extent of timber ornntry n tbe Tenno district wss preseated to Perliemsnt last week. It gives particulars of a proposal for extensive development of a huge tract of land ia tbe centre of the North Island. The Maoris undertake to sell to the company the timber on 10,180 acres and to give an option oyer 19,285 acres upon a royalty of £lO per acre. Tbe company undertakes to construct a

railway forty miles long, from Kakabi station on tbe Main Trunk line, to Lake Taupo, tbe Maori owners eo route to sell sufficient land for tbeline at £1 per acre. Tbia must be completed within five years, and be gauge has to be that of tbe New Zeafend railways. Il is provided in ths proposed egreement that tbe Company shall pay a minimum of £5OOO p.r annum in respect of royaliies whether or not a sufficient amount of timber has been cot.

Tbe C itnmiesion asks Parliament, in view of the great advantages likely tn io tbe Maoris and (be D. - minion io lend its bsnifiment aid to Ute apeeeyexeculiqo of the agreement. Waikato Times.