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The loss of the Napier to Gisborne rail link
Authors: Chris PerleyPublication: New Zealand Journal of Forestry, Volume N.Z.J.For. 2012, Issue N.Z.J.For. 57(4) 2013, pp 39-41, Jan 2013
Publisher: New Zealand Institute of Forestry
Abstract: The Napier to Gisborne rail line is closed. A storm created the final straw, with a cost of a few million dollars to repair. There are ironies in that a storm became the excuse, but you need a bit of history and breadth to see them. Yeats’ ‘passionate’ men do not usually see irony, so intense is their fervour and belief. With fervour and a little spin, one of the peripheral transport network strands is cut from the central rope. This is because, if you look at the costs and returns internal to that one strand, at this time and in this place a case can be made to trim, and so we do. Words such as efficiency are bandied about, meaningless without context