HUGE CYLINDER.
TRANSPORT DIFFICULTY. TOO LARGE FOR TUNNELS. (Br Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WHAKATANE, this day. Although most of the machinery for the paper mills can be sent by boat and rail from Auckland, soma difficulty is being experienced in lauding the big glazing cylinder. This is 3(1 feet long, and between 13 feet and 14 feet in dinmeter. It is too large to be brought to the site by train, as it could not pass through the tunnels on the Waihi section of the line, and is also too larjie to be accommodated on any vessel trading to Whakatane. Arrangements have, therefore, been made for the cylinder to be transhipped at Auckland for Tauranjia, where special lifting apparatus will be provided to transfer the 3(!-ton weight to a specially lengthened railway truck, and it will he brought to the mill site by Hie East Coast line and the company's line.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 38, 15 February 1937, Page 14
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