COMPLETING THE GAP.
SOUTH ISLAND MAIN TRUNK.
LINK BETWEEN RAILHEADS.
SIX HUNDRED . MEN AT WORE.
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)
CHEISTCHURCH, this day,
For a distance of 35 miles the work of completing the gap-in the South Island Main Trunk railway between Parnassus and Wharanui is now in hand. ' The distance between the railheads is 76 miles. Over 600 men are engaged on various I phases of the construction work, 290 at the southern end, and 315 at the northern. From the Parnassus end the construction parties are working for nine miles northwards of the presbnt railway terminus.,- The farthest point in which work is progressing at present is three miles over the Conway-River. Work is also in progress ; for 26 miles south of Wharanui, the outlying camp being five miles south of the' Clarence River.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 219, 16 September 1930, Page 10
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