TAWA FLAT TUNNELS
ENGINEER’S WARNING. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, September 9. Mr J. E. Fulton, engineer of the original Manawatu line, strongly condemns the proposal to drive two tunnels to Tawa Flat, merely to reduce the present grade by half. The grade will still be 1 in 100, which he contends is impossible for underground traffic, and he regards such a plan as one of the greatest blunders ever perpetrated in Wellington. It was always the dream of him and his brother engineers to get rid of the extremely heavy inclines leading out of Wellington, and to substitute practically a flat grade, and he. asserts that one in 300 can be obtained easily at far less cost than the present proposals. He also points out that in America new methods of tunnelling have been applied with such success, that recently a larger tunnel than Otira was built in one-fifth of the time taken in New Zealand. These methods, he urges, should be studied and adopted here.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 September 1927, Page 11
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