TARANAKI RAILWAYS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 99, 17 October 1911, Page 5

TARANAKI RAILWAYS

fITRATFORD MAIN TRUNK. '■£loo,ooo VOTED THIS YEAR. By Felpgraph—Government Memo. t jt t, Wellington, This livered at /'l* „ Works Statement, °de- , red a late hour last night, the fol"*"*S tLiMM. luis teen mud., with the works on this line. The section .between Huiroa and Te Wera wa« opened for traffic on the 20th J une 1010 A further section to Pohokura is finished \\orka Department m consequence of ita being required in connection with the ons truetlon of the next seet . o] «itl^the and passengers are, however, beine regularly conveyed, not only to Poho kura ' >'»t to the foot of the WliaZ. sa <<f the next seclion,^ f nLf ar ® • rGaping the beneflt Jall way communication. Whansramomonn tunnel, which ie over 30 ehSfo. m length, is proceeding satisfactorily the bottom "headings" having alreadv met and enlarging to the full si 2c and lining are now being pushed on. Clearing and fencing on the Tahora sectjon have been commenced, and the tahand. * a further extension is The expenditure on this line last rear rnomtet to £7(5,234, ~,,1 for tl„, SiX "" m '" e '"" 1 MOUNT EGMONT BRANCH. The survey of the extension -to the quarry site is now finished, and clearing fh£ I s 1 undel ' ta] «". not only on this section, but also on the rope in?n T r °, a '-T d Som6 earthwo ''k3 are now fm> . / e T niit,m ,ast J" ear S *\i - ' ? urrcnt - vear a ™te 04 xlo,ooo is provided.