ROTORUA-TAUPO LINE
WILL IT BE COMPLETED? MINISTERIAL INVESTIGATION DECISION LIKELY IN FORTNIGHT (Special to THE SUN) WELLINGTON, Friday. When answering a deputation from the New Zeland Workers’ Union this morning the Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward, said that a question had been asked as to whether it was intended to complete the Taupo-Rotorua railway line. It had already been arranged, he said, for the Ministers interested to visit the district and the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. E. A. Ransom, and the Minister of Lands, the Hon. G. W. Forbes, would visit Rotorua after they had inspected the route of the East Coast railway. Strong representations bad been made, the Prime Minister said, against the building of the line. The question was, of course, whether the line would give a reasonable return for the money spent on it. Several railways liad been laid down in New Zealand without much forethought and they had to guard against mistakes in future. He hoped, he said, to reach a decision in the next fortnight.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 566, 19 January 1929, Page 5
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