PARNELL TUNNEL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13781, 20 June 1908, Page 3

PARNELL TUNNEL.

Sir.— I toad your remarks in this mom* tog's issue on tho abovetiauHwi subject Willi 1 interest, • My statement wa,< that, from per-' : sonal esuminatwH of tho grCKaut, there craiM do* bo more than 20ft to 33ft of soil abotfo tbo tunnel. The correct mew of this si»t«iroonfc is borne .wis by the figure# you show. - ilwght of tit« tunnel from b«»o fa crown is. approximately, 33ft, deduct ih» from your figures, ft vera go them, and you b»ro tb« jma in depth of. say, 51fl. lam still of tb»» ! opinion that tier* tunnel should no-rr havo I boon made at all. 1 still think it would b»< i bettor to try to do away with is altogether, ! and that the expense of doing that, wSwtovor 1 it may be, will practically bo tee first and» j last for a!! time. ) With regard to acquiring a certain limitci { amount ot private laud, that is an tueryI day affair, and in this in*t«neo pTC?Prrt5 n«« j difficulty. However the matter may 1"* ; decided! my main contention is this. that 1 cither the tunnel must- Lv tin plicated o«" j swept away altogether, and substitute » cut- ' tins;; but rim is dear, one plan or the other ; is a work of urgent npcct-Mty, and it is for [ the Railway Department to say which they i will adopt. | The requirement# of 11 ?i«s rapidly-increas-. | in? city cannot be adequately or safely serrI ed by a «mglo pair of rail* tiny longer, and, | personally. I am strongly oppo*vl to th« j approach of either this or any other' largo i city, especially in a new country. bv means i of holes in the ground. B. tel. | [The actual height of lie tinino' from tho ! formation level to the under side of the | areh is lSfi. The thickness of the arch iti self i< 18in, thus matins* a total of 16ft 6»n. j The height is 2ft srenter for a «.hort drf - ! j taueo ('time three chains) at the Newmarket l j end.---En.] ■1