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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 6 January 1923, Page 10

In the course of his addrc*r< to the O.E.M.S. at Christchurch, Mr. W. Nash outlined the work being done by Mr. 11. _ Semple and his co-operative workers in putting through the. Orongorongo tunnel for the extension of Wellington's water supply system. These men. said Mr. Nash, had beaten all previous world-tunnelling records, and not one of them had Jeft his employment during the lengthy period they had been engaged upon the work. -AH their wages were equal, even from the man wbo fed the horses to Mr. Semple himself.