THE OTIRA TUNNEL.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE PBESS. gj r —The enclosed extract from the Auckland "Weekly News" of the Bth inst. contains a statement reported to have been made by Professor Murphy, of Victoria College, with reference to the Otira Tunnel that is so very inaccurate that you would do, I thin*, h public service in giving your readers and those of the "Weekly News the true statement of the cost of the funnel —Yours, etc., tunnei. c TOBIN. Glan-yr-Afon, Burwood, March 12th. '. ENCLOSURE. '•Take the Otira Tunnel," said Proipcqor b. E. Murphy, of Victoria College, in a lecture on "The Public Finance of New Zealand." ''What did that cost? Some say it cost £8,000,00u, but no one knows the actual cost—no one in this wide world or in the waters under the earth —I won't say anything about Heaven! It is costing £400,000 per annum in interest. Is all the traffic that Dasses through it worth that? Is the whole blessed West Coast worth ] that?"
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19259, 14 March 1928, Page 11
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