THE KAIPARA RAILWAY.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 1 March 1917, Page 2

THE KAIPARA RAILWAY.

RUNNING PARTIALLY RESUMED. ;° Through traffic on this line is still blocked, as the result of the recent floods and the big slip at the Woodcocks tunnel. JUT,he Railway I>epartment' expects^P^ tave rijost'qf the debris 1 removed" bj^|iL ~ dayy b,ut it wiil'st'iU be Ijsce^sary 'to ballast about a mile'of the ttack'between Ifotea and tyayby. At tb^is p,oint at on§ I oeriqd qf the flood, the line was covered by eight feet of water, and all the ballast was, 6J course; washed a^ay, 'the line unsafe for traffic. Owing the suspension of the through *" trains, some of the settiers and resident! north of Kaukapakapa have been cut off - * from obtaining supplies of food and stores, which are now beginning to run ~*~ short. In order to provide for the con- J* veyance of provisions and materials to *■* them,- the %H|m6irt jW arWnged/ tf \ *un the a.m. train 1 fron^"^M "^ as far as Ahuroa to-day.