WEST COAST LINE.
GOOD PROGRESS WITH REPAIRS. The wash-out at Otifa, on the West Coast railroad, is now temporarily repaired, although there is a dip of four feet in the main line. This was fourteen feet deep, anol until the rush traffio is over it will not be possible) to restore the line to its normal level. In the meantime nothing is interfering with the traffic, and the trains are passing through on time. The Blackball Bridge is still in the* river, and the temporary structure the Department is erecting will not be comDleted until January 4th. The original bridge was built with four twenty-feet spans, and the temporary bridge will have sixteen spans of twenty feet. This will also serve as the "false work" for the erection of trusses for the now permanent bridge. Blackball is not entirely cut off; pas?sengers are ferried across the river, and from there they walk about a mile to the Ngahere railway station. Goods are conveyed across the river in the same manner. The transport of coal, «f course, is temporarily suspended, and no work is being done at the Blackball mines.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18570, 21 December 1925, Page 10
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