A PRIVATE RAILWAY
GOVERNMENT ASKED TO TAKE OVER. WELLINGTON, June 18. To-day, representatives of the settlers in the Upper Waikato wailed upon the Rigiit Hon. W. F. Massey and the Hons. J. G. Coates and D. H. Guthrie, and asked them to take over the Taupo Timber Co.’s railway, which branches from the Rotorua line at Putannu and runs to Mokai, on the Waikato, near the totara forest on the high land overlooking the Waikato river in that vicinity. They suggested also that the line should be continued to Taupo about IS miles further on. The Ministers pointed out that it was a question between the line and another running through a block of good land acquired by the Government from Messrs E. J. Watt and W. G. Stead for soldier settlement. The decision of the Government is that a commission representative of the Railway, Public Works and Lands Departments shall report to Parliament this session as to the prospects and possibilities of the country through which the two lines would run.
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Southland Times, Issue 18855, 22 June 1920, Page 6
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172A PRIVATE RAILWAY Southland Times, Issue 18855, 22 June 1920, Page 6
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