MAIN TRUNK RAILWAY.
(BY TELEGRAPH -OWN COIUtKSPONDENT.) Auckland, Last Night. Thk Railway League to-day deddud to reply to the telegram from the Hon. R. Seddon as follows :— tf Glad to learn that the extension of the North end of tile Main Trunk Railway is to be taken in liaml at once. The League would like to know if the Mokau section of eleven miles nine chains will be completed this summer. Will you kindly instruct the Survey Department here to send a few more men to make the bridle track from the point of divergence to where the road terminates at Jlangaroa. thirty miles thi-j side of Stratford."
Mr Thompson, M.H.R., by request of the Hon. Cadman, has been handed the following report upon the Main Trunk Railway, ns supplied by the Public Works Department, Wellington, on October 19 last in reply to your queries. The report is as follows: —(1) Tne £05,000 voted last session for works on the north-end of this line are intended to cover the cost of the untouched section between the upper Mikau andPoro-o-torautunnel mentioned in the Public Works Statement, page 9, am! will not be too much for this. _ The length oF the section is eleven miles nine chaios, aid tho rails and sleeners will cost a further sum of £20.000. The length of the section between the tunnel and Ongaruhe, the point where the routes via Waitara or Stratford on the one hand and the central on the other diverge is thirteen miles and 'lie estimated cost of the section is between EtiO.OOOand £70,000. The total cost from 'he Mokau to Ongaruhe will be about £155,000. The estimated cost of the line by the Str.uford route from Onganihe to Stratford, is £100,000, and the estimated cost by the Waitxra route from Ongaruhe to Waitara, £120,000; and the estimated cost by the central route from Ongaruhe to Raug.itira, £151,800.
The remarks made by C"l. i'raser with reference to the proposed Stratford deviation have been challenged by the league and acting on instructions the secretary has written to the member for Te Aroha as follows :— t: In your address last, Wednesday at Te Aroha. you are reported to hive stated 'as to the quality of the land along the rival routes the land was as fifty to u>" against the Stratford route.' The Keen tive Committee of the league would lie ploased if you would explain how you arrive at this conclusion."
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3008, 24 October 1891, Page 2
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407MAIN TRUNK RAILWAY. Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3008, 24 October 1891, Page 2
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