RAILWAY ELECTRIFICATION

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 83, 29 June 1927, Page 12

RAILWAY ELECTRIFICATION

AUCKLAND WILL BENEFIT When the Minister of Railways was recently reviewing the railway works to be put in hand, he stated that it was the intention of the Government to go ahead with the electrification of the south suburban line out of Auckland. This is a subject of great interest to people who may be thinking of building a home in the outer suburbs. Districts that can be reached at present only by a long tram journey, or by railway, and for that reason have been ruled out, should now be reconsidered. The electric railways in Melbourne have been the means of opening up quite large areas previously undeveloped, because access was made easy and pleasant. A run-out in an electric tram,, smokeless, and travelling smoothly at 60 miles an hour, is a very different thing from strap-hanging in a crowded tram, or a journey, however short, by the ordinary steam railway. It is to be hoped that the provision of more electric schemes will hasten the approach of the electric railway.

“UNDER THE HAMMER” PROPERTY SALES PENDING The following properties are advertised to be sold by auction under conduct of the Registrar of the Supreme Court of Auckland: Richard Arthur, Ltd., at their rooms on July 1, a list of properties, including the following: Section in School Road, Morningside. William A. Horne, Ltd., at their rooms, on July 1, a list of properties, including the following: Property 19, Wright Road, Point Chevalier, with four-roomed Bungalow. Property at Livingston Street, Morningside, with four-roomed house. Property in Norwood Road, Bayswater, with six-roomed house. Messrs. Samuel Vaile and Sons, Ltd., at their rooms, on July 1, a list of properties, including the following: Property at Church Street, Ponsonby, with six-roomed residence. July 8: Property at Liger Road, Tamaki, being piece of land over three acres and without buildings. Rutherford, Robinson and Austin, at their rooms, on July 1, a list of properties, including the following: Property, at New North Road, with four-roomed house. July 8: Farm property of 378 acres at Waiwera. C. F. Bennett, at his rooms, on July 8, a list of properties, including the following: Property, 79 Shackleton Road, off Dominion Road, with five-roomed house. N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., at its rooms, on July 8, a list of properties, including the following: Farm property of 559 acres at Churchill on Waikato River.