OPOTIKI’S RAILWAYS
CONNECTIONS NECESSARY PRIME MINISTER TO BE MET (Special to THE & UN) OPOTIKI, To-day. The Opotiki Railway League has decided tc send a deputation to the Prime Minister for the purpose of impressing upon him the necessity for railway connections for Opotiki. At a meeting of the Railway League the Mayor, Mr. G. S. Moody, and Mr. J. H. Reid, chairman of the Opotiki County Council, were appointed a deputation to go to Wellington. The league claims that an extension of the railway from Taneatua to Opotiki would be a means of developing the Opotiki district. The money saved in cheapened freight would be spent on increased land production. League members denied the suggestion that there was rough country to be mastered by the engineers'. There was a few miles of difficult country & I** W»ia»na Gorge.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 627, 2 April 1929, Page 16
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137OPOTIKI’S RAILWAYS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 627, 2 April 1929, Page 16
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