NINE MILES SOUTH ISLAND LINE.
$ COSTS HALF A MILLION. U3y Telegraph— Press Association.) Dunedin, May 8. In refusing an application to shift the site of the Mosgiel railway station nearer Dunedin and for the stoppage of expresses at Mosgiel, the Hon. J. A. Millar made an interesting statement re cost of the railway duplication works on the Dunedin-Taieri section. Tho cost up to dato is about half a million ster['l'iie distance from Dunedin to Mosgiel is a littlo over nir.o miles, and the work of doubling tho existing line included tho duplication of two tunnels, ono of about GO or 70 chains through freestone and inferior basalt, and tho other much shorter.]
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1122, 9 May 1911, Page 4
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112NINE MILES SOUTH ISLAND LINE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1122, 9 May 1911, Page 4
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