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SOUTH ISLAND RAILWAY (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. Rails would be laid to Kaikoura at the north end of the South Island Main Trunk railway by Christmas, or perhaps earlier, the Minister of Public Works, Mr. Armstrong, said to-day. He expected that at the south end rails would be laid as fatas Oaro shortly after Christmas. This, he said, would leave a gap of approximately 10 miles before Kaikoura was reached.
Within this gap. said Mr. Annstrong, lay two rivers, both of which had yet to be bridged. Once these were completed little more time would elapse before the two ends were joined, since the line from there on to Kaikoura followed easv country.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 205, 30 August 1941, Page 8
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