ALEXANDRA. THE RAILWAY ROUTE TO NEW PLYMOUTH. (From a Correspondent.)
Through your columns I beer tacalLthe t^ation of those who areconoern^Tj!l«^e!li(»lti^^Qf our railway, to the fact that the-^nl^es.^nO^ oldest settlers in the upper counW,.flWinirfipusly agree that the line to Taranaki should go to the" west of Kakepuke mountain, through the Kopuu, valley, whence the level couutry extends right away to Te Kuiti without the slightest obstacle throughout the whole distance. Since the surveyors must have been repeatedly over the ground between Alexandra and Ohaupo, I need hardly remind them that from the Ohaupo^Mish to the saddle in the Paterangi roadT^uSr AUen S^t's farm, and thence to Mr Se^on^'s^iou!^ almost a direct and level line, near the Alexandra rifle target, and thenok. in a direct line over the level country towards Kopua, wit* scarcely a cutting on the whole line worth mentioning. i
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Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 479, 15 June 1875, Page 3
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142ALEXANDRA. THE RAILWAY ROUTE TO NEW PLYMOUTH. (From a Correspondent.) Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 479, 15 June 1875, Page 3
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