SOUTH ISLAND RAILWAY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20595, 20 June 1930, Page 14

SOUTH ISLAND RAILWAY

PROGRESS OF THE SURVEY.

HASTENING CONSTRUCTION.

PROPOSED CLARENCE BRIDGE

[by telegraph.—press association.] BLENHEIM, Thursday,

Reference to the further surveying of the route of the South Island Main Trunk railway was made to-day by Mr. Wilson, Government engineer, who has returned from a survey of the Lewis Saddle. Ho and his party are pitching camp on the Kaikoura side of the Hapuku River. Mr. Wilson said ho would take up the survey where lie left it, on the northern sido of the river, and defino a lino on which (he Hapuku Bridge would be constructed. Tlio party would then proceed with the survey down to and through Kaikoura, until it met Mr. Stewart's party at the southern end. The latter party was now camped at Cloverly. Indications were ®that on completion of the survey to Kaikoura construction would 1)0 actively prosecuted in that locality, which was the.central point. This would moan a considerable speeding up of the rate of progress. A start would be made shortly with the manufacturing of ferroconcrete trial piles for the Clarence Bridgo. A test would bo made to see if piles of this typo were preferable to cylinders. Authority had been given for an immediate start with the planting of marram grass south of the Clarence River, where it was hoped a large camp of men would be established for work on construction of (be line.