WARTIME FEAT
QUEENSLAND ROAD Claimed Greater Triumph Than Alaska Highway N.Z. Press Association.j-Copyrisht Rec. 10 a.m. SYDNEY, this day. A strategic road 400 miles long has been built through some of the most difficult country in Northern Queensland. The work was done by 2600 members of the Civilian Constructional Corps at a cost of £1,500,000. The -secretary of the Queensland branch of the Australian Workers' Union, Mr. C. G. Fallon, claims the work of the Constructional Corps is a greater triumph than that of the Americans who built the highway through Alaska. jejighty per cent of the men who built the road had never been on a road-making job before. But they built 34 bridges—one 420 ft long— and more than three miles of culverts. They hewed 34,000 cubic yards of stone and laid more than 1,000,000 tons of gravel. Progress was at the rate of 15 miles a day. Work was begun on September 14 last. Fourteen camps and three hospitals were established to accommodate the workers on the job, which required 8000 tons of mechanical equipment.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 109, 10 May 1943, Page 3
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