STRATFORD-ONGARUE RAILWAY.
CONTRACT FOB TUNNEL. [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, March 20. The Public Works Department is inviting tenders for the construction of the tunnel and the adjacent piece of line on the Strat-ford-Ongarue Railway. The tunnel will pierce the lull in a very difficult piecd of country at the eastern end, about four miles from the Main Trunk, and will provide the key to communication between ■ the fertile Ohura \ alley and the outside world. The tunnel will be about a mile, long, ‘ and. the piece of line to be built a mile-.and .a-halt over very broken country, requiring a. remarkable zig-zag route to be ad&->tcd for the line.
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Evening Star, Issue 15138, 20 March 1913, Page 5
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