CHANNEL TUNNEL
REPORT OF COMMITTEE. PROJECT APPROVED. [British Official Wireless.] Rugby, March 11. The report of the committee which has bien investigating the question of a tunnel under the English Channel will be issued immediately. The committee lias considered the economic, engineering and geological aspects of the matter. Newspapers understand that the committee approves the project and sees no, insuperable difficulty in tho way of the construction of a tunnel in any of the above respects. According to these forecasts, it is recommended that a pilot tunnel be first driven under the Channel as an experiment. at an estimated cost of £5,000,000. It is suggested that construction of the tunnel proper, which is expected to cost £25,000,000, should not be undertaken by tho State, but left to private enterprise. When the report is presented to Parliament there will be the political and military aspects of tho project to be considered.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 73, 13 March 1930, Page 7
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150CHANNEL TUNNEL Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 73, 13 March 1930, Page 7
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