TAPPING BIG TIMBER RESOURCES.
e.n ra.lway extension. This is the Kaihu line, at present seventeen miles W erTSoa on-theVS ern uairoa. It was constructed bv i private company but fell ujSn bad times, and was purchased by the Gov ernment for £,;o,«»00 or £70,000 as an ago. There was an extension of three xniles m hand at the time, and half of t e formation had hoe u completed when the company ceased operations For h.rty years the cuttings and banks hare been tumbling to ruin and bridges Zhalf a 7t y A r* these t],ree * ile * <* half-finished hnes can soon be made workable for traffic. Ri ch timbeJT ioi ahead of the line are some thousands of acres of Crown land and two hundred dr rT SU L erf T al feet of timber**- ' will \ t r ,A u the I,ne is ex tended it present circumstances it will develop ' into an exceedingly good asset. P
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 104, 10 August 1910, Page 5
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157TAPPING BIG TIMBER RESOURCES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 104, 10 August 1910, Page 5
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