THE T.T.T. LINE.

Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 253, 6 September 1928, Page 5

THE T.T.T. LINE.

I ASSISTANCE SUGGESTED.

[ In Matter of Freights.

f Speaking in the House of Representatives, Mr. F. F. Hockly, member for Rotorua, urged upon the House the necessity for an agreement in regard to through freights for settlers jpn the . Taupo Totara Timber Company’s line and also in regard to timber forests tapped by the line. Mr. Hockly said:— i “ There is another important line fo which I wish to refer and that is I that of the Totara Timber Company

from Putaruru to Mokai. This taps B, different area altogether and does Jiot come into competition with the Kotorua-Taupo railway. The settlers along that line are particularly in-

terested in it, because they are dependent upon the line for obtaining their supplies of manure and other things at a reasonable cost and for the taking out of their cheese. That Settlement is proving a very great success although there are certain to it. Those drawbacks are being overcome, but if the settlers could get a through rate from Say the nineteen-mile peg to wherever the produce was going, and vice Versa, they would be in a much better position: I would very much like the Government, therefore, to take into Consideration whether an agreement Sould not be come to with the Taupo Totara Timber Comnanv that would

provide for the first nineteen miles St any rate' being put into such a condition as would permit the runping of Government railway rolling Stock over it, and that the freight Should be calculated on the through rate. There is another matter in connection with that line which I think requires attention by the Government, and that is that the areas ■Of forests from which the timber should naturally drain to the main Pailway system by that tramway Should be definitely allocated to it. I believe there are two areas of milling timber in that area, one belonging to the company and the other to the Crown. It would be to the ad-

vantage of everybody if an exchange of these two areas could be effected ; and then, if the Crown would say definitely what is its policy in regard to the timber which would drain ■down that tramway, it would relievo the minds of the settlers who are always afraid that a day will come when they will be without that railway communication. The definite allocation of that timber to the Taupo Totara Timber Company’s line would extend the life of that railway materially and reduce the anxiety of the settlers on that score.”