HOMER SADDLE
BORING OF TUNNEL
SATISFACTORY PROGRESS
(Special to the "Evening Post") DUNEDIN, This Day. I Satisfactory progress is being made I with the boring of the tunnel through I the Homer Saddle to link the roads on the eastern and Milford sides of the mountain. The contractor, who started j tunnelling work in November, is burrowing at the rate of about 50ft a week, and provided the present speed is maintained the work should be completed in about a year's time, there being some 50 chains remaining to be worked. When daylight is admitted from the Milford end there will theu be the task of lining the tunnel and forming an 18ft roadway with footpaths on either side for the use of pedestrians. Operations do not cease. It is a 24-hour day job at Homer camp. There is a little village of 100 people, while seven miles back along the road live 120 workmen. When the tunnel is finished and the Te Anau-Milford road is linked with the Hollyford side of the mountain, an important route in the network of roads in Otago will be ready for use.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 17, 21 January 1938, Page 10
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