RAILWAY TO TAUPO

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1016, 5 July 1930, Page 10

RAILWAY TO TAUPO

LEAGUE URGES NEED LETTER TO PARLIAMENT The views of a party or Waikato farmers which visited the pumice areas around Keporoa, in the Taupo district recently, have been issued in pamphlet form by the Rotorua-Taupo Railway League as an open letter to members of Parliament. The farmers made a statement after their visit to the effect that the area inspected showed promise and was land that could readily be brought into good pasture by modern methods and manuring at a very moderate cos" and in a remarkably short time. U was eminently suitable for dairying but a railway was an essential it the country was to be developed to the full Tire area was the largest available ia the Dominion for improvement and settlement in small areas. The signatories lo lie document were Messrs. Joseph Rarugh, Daniel V. Bryant, Dynes Fulton, J.P., Robert .T. Glasgow, F. E. Hughes. .T.P., J. F Makgill, C. J. Par lane and Stewart Reid, all well known in the Waikato, four being on the directorate of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company. The letter to Parliament mentions other favourable comment by farmers, and enlarges on the theme that a road cannot take the place of a railway, claiming that the reduction of abou: 2s 6d a ton which will result ‘ from present road improvements will be offset by the fact that, owing to the speed and fury of modern motor tourist traffic, the road will be unsuited for stock droving. It is also claimed that this railway can bo constfucted fur one-third the. cost a mile of any of the lines now being built.