Edward Earle Vaile OBE (3 March 1869 – 11 January 1956) was a real estate agent, farmer, philanthropist, author, railway campaigner and a pioneer of the pumice country - Broadlands, North Island, New Zealand.
From 1911 onwards he led campaigns and lobbied vigorously for many years to have a railway built between Rotorua and Taupo.
In 1929 published another campaign pamphlet titled "The truth about the Taupo railway - the story of a great crime" advocating the need for and the numerous benefits such a line would bring, in response to the government stopping the project in that year.
He stood in the 1931 election in the Rotorua electorate as an independent supporter of the Reform Party with the construction of the line as his main issue.
[2] In the 1952 Queen's Birthday Honours, Vaile was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the community in Auckland.