RAPID CONSTRUCTION
SOUTHERN MAIN TRUNK
LINE OPEN IN THREE YEARS
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
BLENHEIM, This Day
So easy is construction work on the northern end of the South Island Main Trunk railway that there is every reason to believe that a New Zealand record1 for railway building will be established there.
Formation work :iss now in varying stages of completion over a stretch of moVe than 30 miles from the end of the completed lino at Wharanui to the Clareifte River and it will bo finished ready for the running of such commercial trains as are necessary by September at the present rate of progress; though there is some fairly heavy work ahead.
Tho South Island Main Trunk line should bo open for v traflie as a completed utfit of tho Now Zealand railways system within three years.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 21, 26 January 1931, Page 10
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138RAPID CONSTRUCTION Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 21, 26 January 1931, Page 10
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