Central Railway Line.
LARGE LAND PURCHASE.
(UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION) Wellington, Wednesday. This afternoon the Minister for Public Works received a telegram from Mr W. Butler, the Native Land Purchase Commissioner, stating that the two chiefs, Topia Turoa and Wiremu Turoa, who had previously refused to sign the deed of sale for a block of land m the King Country, along the route of the North Island Trunk railway, had now dono so, and that arrangements for the purchase of the block by Government were completed. The block is known as the Haimaranui and contains 400,000 acres of fair land. The) Public Works Department have m. good course of progress a road from Pipiriki, a village some distance up the Wanganui River, to Ohakoane, a point where the Trunk railway touches. This road is about the southern boundary of the Waimaranui block, and when the contracts for the North Island railway are again progressing, the most of the material far the interior ports under construction will be sent to Pipiriki, up the Wanganui river, by a special-ly-improved steamer, and thence by. the newly-formed road to Ohakoane.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1692, 24 April 1886, Page 2
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185Central Railway Line. Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1692, 24 April 1886, Page 2
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