RIMUTAKA TUNNEL

Evening Star, Issue 25927, 19 October 1946, Page 6

RIMUTAKA TUNNEL

READY BY. 1951

ADDRESS DY MR NASH

(P.A.) MASTERTON, Oct. 19. The State Theatre was packed last night when the Hon. W._ Nash delivered an address and received a warm welcome as also did Mr G. A. Hansen, the Labour candidate for Wairarapa. Mr Nash spoke on finances, Social Security, earthquake damage, Labour’s achievements since it had been in office, and future policy much on the lines of previous statements., Mr Nash said that the Rimutaka tunnel project was a sound, economic proposition. Mr Semple would turn the first sod at a ceremony near Mangaroa on November 9, and tiie whole project should be open for traffic at the end of 1951. The tunnel would be four and three-quarter miles long, second only in length to the Otira tunnel. It would be electrified from Wellington to Upper. Hutt and then to Featherston. The meeting unanimously carried, a motion of confidence in Mr Nash, the Government, and Mr Hansen as the candidate for Wairarapa. >

The secretary of' the local Labour Party announced to-day that the Prime Minster’s visit to Masterton had been postponed. from November 1 to November 8, on account of the Wairarapa P. and A. Society’s night show at Carterton, the party desiring to be as helpful as possible to the society.