OTAGO CENTRAL RAILWAY.
Dunedin, June 9
Messrs Bathgate, Reid,, Bastings, and Chirk, appointed by the counties interested as Commissioners to inspect and report on the line of the Otago Central Railway have now reported at length. They say :—“ The construction of the Otago Central Railway would be the means of opening for sale and settlement an area of not leas than 2,500,000 acres of Crown lands, about 500,000 acres of which are suitable for cultivation, and the remainder may at present be classed as pastoral and semi agricultural.” Further, “That about £115,000 have already been expended on the construe lion of the railway, which sum will be entirely unrcproductive until the line is extended to Strath-Taieri." They also say that it would prove to be (he cheapest constructed line in the colony, its length being considered.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2565, 10 June 1881, Page 2
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136OTAGO CENTRAL RAILWAY. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2565, 10 June 1881, Page 2
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