Edward Earle Vaile
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Edward Earle Vaile was a real estate
Real estate
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 agent, farmer
Farmer
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, philanthropist
Philanthropist
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, author, railway campaigner and a pioneer of the pumice country - Broadlands, North Island, New Zealand
New Zealand
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Vaile was a very strong advocate for the building of a government railway between Rotorua and Taupo via Waiotapu and Wairakei
Wairakei
Wairakei is the name of a power station, small settlement and a geothermal area a few kilometres north of Taupo, in the centre of the North Island of New Zealand, on the Waikato River.- Geothermal field :...

. He led campaigns and lobbied vigorously for many years to have a railway built between Rotorua and Taupo
Taupo railway proposals
There have been a number of proposals to build a Taupo Line as a branch railway linking the township of Taupo in the central North Island of New Zealand to New Zealand's rail network...

, formed and led the Rotorua Taupo Railway League and the Reporoa Railway League, and in 1928 published a campaign pamphlet advocating the construction of a railway between Rotorua and Taupo.

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