Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDENESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1884. THE GORGE LINE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 136, 19 November 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDENESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1884. THE GORGE LINE.

We learii that a building is to be erected at once m the neighbourhood of the Gorge for the accommodation of the staff of surveyors and Government officials shortly to be employed there. The specifications for the building are already m hand. It is understood that the experience of recent floods has proved that the original survey levels are not at a sufficient elevation, and that new surveys will be taken at once at a considerably higher level, so as to obviate any risk to the permanent way from floods. The new survey operations may, and probably will, necessitate some little delay m starting operations ; but it is to be hoped that the preliminary works will be pushed on with all possible despatch, i so as to take full advantage of the fine weather that may now be expected, to make a good start before winter sets m. The sooner this very important colonial undertaking is actually under weigh, the better pleased will be the residents of both sides of the Ranges, and indeed of both East and West Coasts of the North Island.