WORK ADVANCED.
TUNNEL THROUGH HOMER SADDLE. (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Dec. 25. One of the most difficult tasks undertaken in the construction of the highway from Lake Te Anau to Mil•ford—the driving of the 4000-foot tunnel through the Homer Saddle at a•height of several thousand feet above sea-level—is now fully advanced to schedule. The decision to drive the tunnel was made only last June, and since then complete details of the work to be undertaken have been made out, and the plant to provide power for drilling through the rock has been built overseas. This plant is expected to come to hand this week. Before anything could be done at the point where the tunnel commences, it was necessary to construct the road to that position. The Public Works men have lost no time in completing that approach, and the position to-day is that everything is ready for the underground drive. A settlement has been built for the men, and a long stretch of 30-inch pipe-line has been laid to drive the turbines, the foundations for which are already prepared. It now remains to transport electric plant from Dunedin to the site, and to install it—a task that is expected to be completed by the end of February. It is hoped that the job will be completed by the end of 1937. When the road from Te Anau to Milford has been finished, it will open up some of the finest forest and mountain scenery in New Zealand.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 63, 26 December 1935, Page 7
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