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PERMANENT SEALING PROGRESS NEAR HAMILTON [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON. Tuesday Progress made by the contractors in the re-forming and sealing of sections of the Great South Road between Ngaruawahia and Te Awamutu was referred to at a meeting of the Waipa County Council yesterday by the engineer, Mr. J. W. Civil. He said that the metalling of the deviation at Horotiu was in hand, and would probably be completed this week. With improved weather the contractor was forging ahead on the sections between Hamilton and Te Awamutu and the Public Works Department had completed the extension of a large culvert at Mill Creek. A tunnel was being driven at Mystery Creek for the installing of a new larjje concrete culvert. The engineer added that plans and estimates for the reconstruction and sealing of the Hamilton-Whatawhata main highways, five miles 50 chains in length, had been forwarded to the Public Works Department for authority to proceed with the work,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22247, 23 October 1935, Page 12
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