A. And P. APPEAL

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30499, 22 July 1964, Page 18

A. And P. APPEAL

£28,000 Given In Fortnight

With the announcement of a grant of £lOOO by the Christchurch City Council, the total amount in the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association’s centennial appeal reached £28,000 at the end of its second week.

“This is splendid.” said Mr W. R. Oliver, president of the association, commenting yesterday on the City Council’s action. “For more than a century we have had the full support of the citizens of Christchurch. They regard it as their show and take a pride in it. I feel that the City Council has expressed this feeling in the most practical and generous wav.

“The new amenities the appeal will provide will give the city the best show ground in the country, a fitting setting for the country’s biggest and best show.”

Mr Oliver said the response from country members had been excellent Districts which had so far reported had provided £17,000 of the totaL City interests had made several notable contributions, but their response was naturally slower, because in most cases the size of the contribution must be decided bv company directorates, he said. An amount of £lOOO-had been confirmed by Dalgety and New Zealand Loan, Ltd', and among other large amounts were £5OO from P. Burke and Company, Ltd., and £250 from Aerial Sowing (Canterbury), Ltd. It was expected that many other big sums would be reported from city businesses soon.

Large amounts already reported were £2OOO from Pyne. Gould, Guinness, Ltd., and £lOOO each from the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company, Ltd., the New Zealand Refrigerating Company, Ltd., and A. R, Mackay, Ltd.

This three-decker drilling jumbo, photographed about 1200 feet inside the Manapouri power scheme tailrace tunnel at Deep Cove, is by far the largest in New Zealand. The contractors, Utah-Wiiliamson-Burnett, are training a team of tunnellers to use this rig in an attempt to break a world-drilling record for a six-mile tunnel.

The bits on the compressed air drills are tipped with i

! tungsten carbide. The heads cost from £5 to £5O, according ■ to size. The drilling cycle ! aims to achieve about 130 wholes 18 feet deep. The I amount of material to be reI moved after a shot is about 900 yards loose. The actual drilling face is the same area as the floor space of a small house. The jumbo works on one; ‘of the latest tunnelling de-! velopments—a sliding floor. < The American-designed slid-

>|ing floor provides a movable ;! platform from which to opert j ate all tunnelling equipment. 11 This consists of two muckers :' for removing blasted rock, and ■ rails for the switching and storage of muck cars and ; locomotives. In operation, the floor is hard up against the face, the jumbo moves forward and is ; then moved back from the pace and the shot fired, the i spoil falling on to the front sections of the floor.