TANGANYIKA RAILWAY
TANGI MOSHI EXTENSION PUSHED ON ARUSHA RAILHEAD REACHED British Official Wireless Reed. 11 a.m. RUGBY, Wednesday. Information has been received by the Colonial Office from the Governor of Tanganyika Territory that the extension of the Northern, or Tanga Moshi Railway to Arusha, which has been under construction since the end of 1927, reached the railhead at Arusha on August 14. The extension is a short section of about 50 miles In North Tanganyika territory, designed to open up the high lands of Mount Meru, where there is already a considerable white settlement. It was one of the developmental works which the Tanganyika Government proposed in 1926 for construction, out of the proceeds of the East Africa guaranteed loan of £10,000,000, which Parliament sanctioned in that year. The East Africa Guaranteed Loan Committee recommended the allocation of £250,000 from the loan for this purpose. The work of constructing the line was in the first place subordinated to the completion of the more important Tabora-Mwanza Railway to the northwest of the territory, but since the latter was finished in August, 1928, work on the Aruslia extension has been pushed on rapidly.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 748, 22 August 1929, Page 9
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