LYTTELTON TUNNEL.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13546, 6 October 1909, Page 9

LYTTELTON TUNNEL.

THE SMOKE N'CISAXCE

foniiel and tne ,^ te nu-ance , ot £ lton brought up b> i, oroug h Council ..(Jlr O. night, -Mr G. 'iwetinjs «* f 3 p said that ho warmly jnpported tn_ v i an improve . mß tter« had been m to worse, in connec- ■ eOing for several years. tion wittt tn- I brought betore The question had n j occas i ons | )V th- Government on -«r himselr and a p arliaulont and ! bury member, ■in pnvaii.. •- K | i m p rov ins T of 3» t»»«..! had been thf ba<l suite of go Hj]hv De _ eug«ested. K««««J . n:t , lltil . ith p -w" U i id tIS hed l>oen found, from oii fuel, 3E d f l % S ie ', v ot the travelling "'.SS'-'lfeStrify the tunn,l would bo rreiT cxpeiwiVe «"ork. and 31r Laurc».v{ that i liPttiT Kclicir.e l.nd fiTtrfi in «nne-tion ,r!th one c f the ■ «,rlint Eneli>!> tunnels. 'Ihe idea K°S' h." "a larso an-1, Sor-engincat tho moMth «i the tunL Immediately a tram arnvwl at the entrance the -r'lmnry locomotive was side-trneked. *:<A ta« train Kikcn through the tunnH l.v tli- n.otor-on-£ue Tins mcar.r that none of the , rt)al-bnniinf: locomotives entered tho tnnijel at all, and so the smoke nniKinco . vas done away with. -Mr Laurenson esid he, understr>r>'J that the Government vtas at prosrnt considering; tho ■β-lwle matter, and it tvns hoped shortly to find some way of dealing with th<pmoke nuisanrp. "I believe," said Mr . Lanrenson. "that, before many months »rt> past, the fhoHtins'ly bad stnto of affnirs in -connection with th<* tunnel will be a thine of the pnst, and, speakfor myself, it : s high time it was. One of the first things I sKall do in ■ Wellinston is to find out definitely Isow matters stand in regard to the tunpel end the smoke nuisance."