TUNNEL COMPLETED
TURAKiNA DEVIATION
I liy lelfiiiuph — Ires)- Assncial inn. WANGANUI, This Day. Denlair Tunnel, on the Okoia-Tura-kina deviation, which was started in October, 1937. was finished yesterday, and the tunnellers will be drafted to ether public works jobs. The Department was given to Septembei to finish the job. A smaller tunnel at the southern end of the Denlair will be finished within a month. Sixty chains of the Turakina tunnel nave been driven and there are 40 chains to go. It is estimated that it will take a year lo complete this tunnel Work on formation and cuttings if
nearing an end, when the population of Denlair Camp will be further reduced. Pile-driving for the railway bridge across the Wangaehu River is under way. The Turakina bridge has not yet been started.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 5, 6 July 1939, Page 10
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