MASTERTON TO PONGAROA.
(Rangitikei Advocate.) Last week several gentlemen who are interested in the construction of a light line of railway between Masterton and Pongaroa about, fortysis 'miles—-paid a visit of inspection i * 'to'the Sandon "tramway in order to'* asoertain. whether something.'Similar > -would imeet their- "* "Just the very thing we wabt,7,jHraSf' V ' 'their remark after having a , over the line and noting its convenience to settlers. Pongaroa, is a " growing township in tne centre of a ,> good district where progress is greatljr dejayed owing to lack!;,,of i transport of produce. JTM^nfetfresfc 11 < railway centre (Pahiatua) 1 is nearly forty miles distant, and tix winter the»roads arc so bad that»communicationi\is practically* cut "during,, the t winter months. On *o^ie-oc-casion it took five horses two-days to draw a load'of 12cwt over the distance. If the Government will"not'' undertake the proposed work it is the intention to lay the question before the ratepayers in the interested counties, and if sanctioned they will construct a line of their own similar to the tramway.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10130, 5 January 1911, Page 4
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169MASTERTON TO PONGAROA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10130, 5 January 1911, Page 4
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