RAILWAY FENCING.

Patea Mail, 31 October 1881, Page 3

RAILWAY FENCING.

The following official answer has reached the Chairman and Committee of the Kakaramea meeting, re fencing the railway in a manner suited to the district:

Public Works Office, Wellington, 22nd Oct. Gentlemen, —With reference to your letter of 26th September, acknowledged on the sth October, I am directed by the Acting Minister for Public Works to state that the fence now being erected along the railway line at Kakaramea has been found elsewhere not only exceedingly durable but most effectual as a protection for cattle, and it is solely on account of its recognised advantages that it has been directed to be introduced along railway lines in other localities.

In some places, owing to the lightness of the soil, intermediate straining-posts have been found to be occasionally necessary, and if in the present instance such should be the case they will be directed to be introduced. The Minister, however, does not doubt but that after a fair trial your experience of this kind of fence will remove the objections at present urged against it. The Minister further directs me to state that if the fence should not in your district prove as advantageous as it has done elsewhere, he will direct that a fence sufficient for all ordinary cattle and horse purposes will be provided. The Minister trusts that this explanation will be entirely satisfactory to you. John Knowles, Under-Secretary for P. Works.