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Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1934, Page 5

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It was eleven years ago on Saturday last, August 4, 1923, that- the. Otira. tunnel was officially opened, and the first railway service ran from coast to coast. The tunnel itself was 15 years being built, first by private contract and then by the Public Works Department. But the history of the railway dream which it, made a reality dates back to the ’sixties, and as early as 1873 a Railway Act, providing for railway from Nelson to the West Coast and thence to Canterbury, was passed. The original tunnel contract was let for. approximately £500,000/ but . the ultimate cost was £1,300,000. The tunnel is 5 miles 25 chains' IS links long, and it has a grade of one in 33, or 2ft a chain, rising 850 feet from Otira to the Bealey end.

A Wellington correspondent states it is not likely that any more will be heard of. the petition -which was to have been presented to the two leaders, asking for a permanent fusion of the two parties to the Coalition. It is learned that the petition, which was sponsored •on the Reform side by a South.lsland member, met with no support from Reform members, and that this was the reason for the dropping of the whole plan. It,was not known positively whether the Reform members were merely unwilling to put any pressure on their own leader, or whether thev refrained from signing the petition because they do not, in fact, desire; a permanent fusion of the Reform and Liberal parties.

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