MILFORD-TE ANAU.
FORMING THE NEW ROAD. (Special to the " Guardian.") DUNEDIN, June 2. The advance gang employed by the Public Works Department on the formation of the Te Anau-Milford road is now at a point 54£ miles from the Te Anau Hotel on a steep siding that banks the Hollyford River. Formation work is finished for a stretch of si\ miles and the point now being made for is the approach to a tunnel to .pierce the Harrow Range under the Homer Saddle. Its length will be three-quarters of a mile. The total length of: the road when completed from To Anau to Milford will be 73f miles. From the Darrow Range to Milford is all downhill. In the meantime, men are working in country so rough that when a change of camp is necessary they have to carry everything on their backs. Soon now, pack-horses will be employed again. „ The highest point of the whole road is to bo 3060 ft. above sea level, at the Hollyford entrance to the tunnel.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 198, 4 June 1934, Page 3
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