TRAFFIC THROUGH OTIRA TUNNEL
"The anxiety of; South Island/ people to see the Otira tiinnel opened for traffic is due to a desire to. avoid the dual control of; tho Railways arid Public Works Departments,' with its consequent duplication of fWeights. Yesterday, (lie Hon. G. J. Coatee "gave some. information, to the House which was ■welcomed. ' Ahswenrisf an urgent request-that the. torn-" nel should be used for the conveyance of coal from the West Coast to .Canterbury, where tiiei'e is a shortage, the Minister of Railways mentioned that on Saturday/ the Ottra tunnel had been used to convey 400 tons of freight from the^Coast, 1 and: that in-oportion was coal. The frekht from Eeefton to Christchurch was lEs lIS per ton; and from Kewanui 325. Jnsfc s fast as the electric locom.otiveß could handle U, e traffic it, wauld be ? th,xAg^tht tunnel, but lie asked the House to X SSI^MV ft -^^'**£ ; trial, .and that there niiirht lio until it Jiad got into gooffini^o^der! 8
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 15, 18 July 1923, Page 5
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164TRAFFIC THROUGH OTIRA TUNNEL Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 15, 18 July 1923, Page 5
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