AUCKLAND RAILWAY LEAGUE

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 11 September 1912, Page 3

AUCKLAND RAILWAY LEAGUE

A meeting of the district council d tho Auckland Railway League wa| of held at.the office of the secretary (Mfpas R. R. Hunt), when the annual ropor4lr for prosentation to tho Governmen|rt, before the Public .Works Statemonent is brought down, was considered. ,ent The reportj as road ly t'^sidered.

(Mr G. L. Peacoc'readly the chairman the first considencocke) set forth that shouldJje^<v^-^/n??'atiou 0 f Parliament mUnication large district, railway com> prosperous settlement, such'"us'*v or North Auckland Peninsula and tuV immenso areas of rich alluvial and* pastoral lands on tho East Coast ofl this island, and also to connect with J the Main Trunk railway and the* Auckland province the neighbouring, \ ..yet long disconnected provincial dis-1 Strict of Taranaki, ,J with the Northern Maiy. Tifuhk the report stated :—The rat£ °tj)J' o o ves?' on tms lino has boenl i somewhat disappointing, no doubtv owing to the natural difficulties met I with in tho nature of the country '< between To liana and Kaiwaka, and on the route of tha deviation adopted via Young's Point and Biokertstatfe to the west of the lino originally de> cided upon by the engineers. Beyond Kaiwaka work has been steadily, .if somewhat slowly pushed ahead owing to the unfavourable nature of the country for deep cutting and tunnelling work, especially on tho Bickerstaffe section, where it is understood the engineers have had great' difficulties to contend with owing to the unstable character of the ground to be passed through. The cost of the work, and of, bridging the KaiV tara and Otamatea* rivers" will probably make the ! expenditure upon this snetion a very heavy ->no per mile lof construction, much of which your \ Council believe might'have been saved i by adhering to tho original route to lithe east of Maungaturoto. With re-

ference to tho extension of tho main

jlino beyond McCarroll's Gap. the retool t of tho Royal Commission having (lecided upon the western route via Ivirikopuni, your Council recommend tjhafc the Government be asked to make the neotssary surveys to enable a'-fuither section to be authorised this session as far at least as Kirikopuni, and if possible to Mangakahia..