HOMER TUNNEL
Date Of opening Indefinite
(Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, March 5. The approximate date on which the Homer Tunnel will be open for motor traffic through to Milford Sound is very indefinite as the war has created a shortage of supplies of essential materials for completing boring work. Mr. R. Semple, who was Minister of Public Works during the period when much of the construction work was carried out, said today' that work on the tunnel had'been speedy till war broke out, but since then boring had been comparatively slow. A shortage of new equipment became evident soon after the outbreak of war and the Public Works Department had been able to get only two Diesel pumps instead of four. There was little or no steel for boring operations and work was further slowed up by competent men going away on active service. Work on the tunnel would still go on unless some national crisis arose, added tlie Minister.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 137, 6 March 1941, Page 9
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