BAY OF PLENTY
RAILWAY REQUEST (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, 18th July. ■ Sir Joseph Ward told a deputation \ representing Bay of Plenty local bodies and interests asking that the East Coast , Railway from Auckland to Taneatua be pushed' on to Opotiki, that the matter would be considered. The railway was a long distance one and not an isolated line, and was connected with the trunk; system of railways in the North Island. In that respect extension was within the category for consideration. A report would be placed bofore Ministers so that they might consider every aspect and judge for themselves whether it was a line that could be put in hand at the earliest moment. He stressed that they were in a year when the finances of the countzy required every item in expenditure to be reviewed in the general interests of the people of the Dominion.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 19 July 1929, Page 4
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146BAY OF PLENTY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 19 July 1929, Page 4
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