ROTORUA-TAUPO LINE
WORK WAS JUSTIFIED EX-MINISTER’S OPINION (The £ UK’S Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, Friday. The opinion that the RotoruaTaupo line was justified was expressed in the House of Representatives this afternoon by Mr. K. S. Williams, ex-Minister of Public Works, in the course of his Budget speech. The idea, he said, had been to provide access if not before then at the same time as the settlement of the district. The Minister of Lands must know the necessity of quick and cheap transport of manures. Mr. Williams had not supported the line as a railway proposition, but in the interests of the settlement and development of the country. Mr. G. C. Munns (Ros’kill): Would not a road do the work just as well? The Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, Leader of the Opposition: What is the difference in costs a ton mile? Mr. Williams was of opinion that with the class of country concerned the cost of the railway would be very little more, if any, than cost of the road, which would have to stand up to heavy traffic. The provision of a line betwen Rotorua and Taupo was not a new railway, he said, but the continuation of a line already in existence.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 744, 17 August 1929, Page 12
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