EXTENSION OF THE TE AROHA PAEROA RAILWAY.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1755, 31 July 1895, Page 2

EXTENSION OF THE TE AROHA PAEROA RAILWAY.

The following correspondence has passed between -the To Aroha Town Board and the Thames Borough. Council relative to the completion of tho railway line : —• Sir Thomas Radfoid, Chairman of the Railway Committee, has written the following letter to the Chairman of the Te Aroha Town Board, Mr If. Gavin The Railway Committee very much appreciate .the kindly offer of your Board;: tot assist in obtaining tbro completion of the Thames Talley line, and consider the best way of giving effect to your wishes vyould be to address a petition to the Hon, the Minister of -Bublic ; Works signed by yourself find' the members of the Board and sending it on with as little delay as possible to Mr McGowan, M.H.R,, Wellington, requesting him to present it to the Minister. This will give valuable support to the Committee, and I have little.doubt of' success attending our joint efforts in obtaining all we’work for.”

TO THE HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS, WELLINGTON.

The Petition of the Chaieman and Membebs of the Te Aeoha Town Board Humbly SheWeth— That for m.-uy years past’it has beencon-templated-to .establish Railway communication betWeefi phe Thames' and Te Aroha, thereby giving the Thames Borough ’and the Thames Mining District a through traffic connection by Railway with Auckland and the Waikato.

That the'said/Railway connection having been completed /as far as Paeroa, and a portion of the-Line having been made at the Thames, it is expedient that the balance of the Railway should now be constructed be tween Paeroa and the Thames, which latter is its proper and natural terminus. That the whole of the district between Te Aroha and the Thames is of immense value to the colony as a gold-bearing country, and at the present time its population and importance is largely increasing. That while the extension of the said railway to the Thames would greatly benefit Te Aroha and its Sanatorium, in which your Petitioners are chiefly, interested ; they venture to think that the said railway extension would also be of great advantage to. all parts of the Auckland province- at present served by the Railway system,. Your petitioners therefore - ask that the I Government may see their way to place a sum on the Estimates this year sufficient to complete the said railway to the Thames, and your Petitioners will ever pray.—T. Gavin (Chairman), E. Gallagher, W. Hetherington, M. Hotchin and T. Bradley, Commissioners.