PUBLIC WORKS: KAIPARA RAILWAY EXTENSION.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 92, 25 January 1872, Page 3

PUBLIC WORKS: KAIPARA RAILWAY EXTENSION.

A deputation consisting of Mr Thomas Henderson, M.11.R., Dr Campbell, Messrs Creighton, M.H.IL, J. Lamb, W. Graham, J. M. Dargaville, Buchanan (Mount Albert), A. K. Taylor, 8. Cochrane, and J. T. Boylan, waited on the Minister for Public Works (Mr Ormond), by appointment, on Wednesday, for the purpose of urging on the Government the propriety of extending the Kaipara railway to Auckland from Riverhead.

The interview was short, and the proceedings were altogether of a conversational character. Mr Henderson explained the object of the deputation, and urged upon the Minister the necessity for acceeding to their request. There was at present a large and increasing traffic between Auckland, Riverhead, and Kaipara, and the line would open up a considerable extent of settled country.

Dr Campbell said the proposed extension of the Kaipara railway to Auckland was not urged upon the Government with the view of an immediate return on the expenditure, but ns a part of their general policy. It was for the Executive to consider whether it was not a proper undertaking to open up about live thousand miles of inland water communication, by connecting Auckland with the Kaipara. Mr Ormond admitted the force of this remark, and said that in the expenditure of the vote for roads and works in the North, one of the objects of the Government would lie to connect the Bay and other Northern districts with the head of the Kaipara navigation. Of course these roads would bo feeders to the traffic of the proposed railway. Mr Dargaville remarked that the railway in question, if brought on to Auckland, would he an outlet for at least one million acres of land. The deputation withdrew, highly satisfied with their interview with the Minister for Public Works.— Cross.