THE OTIRA TUNNEL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16761, 30 January 1918, Page 6

THE OTIRA TUNNEL.

) _ 3 f PROGRESS OF CONSTRUCTION r -* i tour of inspection. Sl • 1 I [BY telegraph.—peess association.] I GREYMODTH, Tuesday. 3 A LARGE delegation, representing all local 3 bodies on the West Coast, left here to-day J and met Canterbury representatives at I Arthur's Pass on a visit of inspection to t the Otira Tunnel, Which is within measurl ablo distance of completion. The tour will 3 occupy some days. Increasing interest is being .displayed by outside capitalists in 0 opening up* large areas of pastoral lands 9 on the coast, which are beiU£ rapidly 8 takfm up. People on the coast have reared a cattle which brought the highest prices on a the Canterbury markets. f / ' CANTERBURY DELEGATES. 7 ! DEPARTURE FOR COAST. " [B? telegraph.—press association.] CHRISTCHURCH. Tuesday. 0 Representatives of the Canterbury and 1 East Coast Chambers, of Commerce and " local bodies visited Otira to-day to make 0 an inspection of tho Arthur's Pass tunnel 1 works, which, when completed, will give direct railway communication between the 5 two provinces. At present only 113 r chains separate the two headings. At a conference between tho various ? delegates, held this evening, _ resolutions * were carried expressing appreciation of tho * manner in which tho work was being 1 J prosecuted, and urging the completion of ■*- the tunnel with all possible speed.