MAUKU

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 268, 20 April 1917, Page 4

MAUKU

THE NEW RAILWAY. Work on railway construction is now pr iceoding at a fair rate between Patumahoe and Mauku, a gang of m9n being engaged in laying the sleepers and rails, and anoth t in levelling the Maokj station site and making the necessary alterations in the roads that the opening of the station will necessitate. Immediately to the west of that station the line will cross the Mauku stream at a high level, requiring a large bridge and embankments and no attempt has been made as yet to get this work under way. At one time it was proposed to put in a twelve-foot culvert hern, but the excessive rise in the stream during freshes, owing to the extent of country it drains, has c mvinced the department, that a bridge will he necessary. Except at this point the earthwork of the line is now practically complete to within a mile and a-half of Waiuku. If the people of Glen brook and Waiuku are awake to their own interests they will agitato for the building of the bridge to lie put in hand as soon as the opening of the' line to Mauku permits the carnage of materials to the spot. In the meantime the station at Patumalioe is doing a substantial goods-service and is largely patronised by the peoplo of Patumalioe, Mauku, Waiau and even (jrlenbrook.