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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14526, 14 November 1910, Page 8

The engineers of the New South Wales Railway Department claim that a feat in bricklaying that had probably never been beaten in the world was accomplished in one of the tunnels on the Ziz Zaz deviation works. A tunnel 66 chains long covering two lines, was bricked in 12 weeks. The walls varied from four bricks at the sides to other thicknesses. The work was done by the men—about 40— ting to the task on the understanding that each was to lay 1000 bricks per shift. And there was not one who came short. One thousand bricks a day is hard going, even in Australia, where bricklayers are accustomed to look upon the 300 or so laid in England in a day as beneath contempt. There were a number of newly-arrived jvorkinea, fronyEn^lfiind-in Jhecteam,;