MILFORD TUNNEL
DEPARTMENT'S PLANS
ROAD WELL ADVANCED
(By Telegraph.) (Special to the "Evening Post.") DUNEDIN, This Day. This week Mr. Ball (District Engineer of the Public Works Department) and Mr. McLeod (the Department's Chief Mechanical Engineer visited the Te Anau-Milford road, and decided upon the plant required for the tunnel piercing, which is to begin in October.
Nearly all the plant needed is in the possession of the , Department, and arrangements are in train for its delivery. The forming of the road to the point where the tunnelling is to begin is proceeding satisfactorily, and is now completed to a length of 59 miles 10 chains from Te Anau, with the exception of a few culverts, construction of which will take two weeks.
A section ahead of the working party, three miles and a half in length, is now the subject of preparation, and it is expected this section, bringing the road to the mouth of the tunnel, will be completed in September.
The tunnel is,-to be lined at each end, The rest will be through solid rock.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 6, 6 July 1935, Page 14
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