This weeks article is from the New Zealand Railway Observer Volume 31, No 3, Spring 1974 and is:

Spit to Paki Paki – A Note on the First Railway in Hawke’s Bay – by E.C.G. Fletcher with considerable stimulation from A.C. Bellamy

 Article 50, Volume 31, No 3, Spring 1974

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