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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 5, Issue 3 (July 1, 1930)

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In this article the writer gives a narrative of an official exploring tour in 1892 along the proposed route of the North Island Main Trunk railway from South Auckland to Taranaki, linking up the two provinces, which at that time were quite isolated from each other. This route was discarded in favour of the present Central route, via Taumarunui, Waimarino and Taihape, but it is now being completed as a necessary connection between Auckland and Taranaki. The writer describes the King Country as it was nearly forty years ago, before white settlement had transformed the face of the great Rohepotae territory.