SOUTH MAIN TRUNK.
excellent progress of work^ ■ : READY WITHIN THREE YEARS, i "'. - . (Pee United Press Association.) ’ , ' BLENHEIM, January 26. So easy is the construction work on the northern end of the South Island Main Trunk railway that there is every reason to believe that a New Zealand record for railway building will be established there. Formation work is now in varying stages of completion over a stretch of more, than 30 miles from the end of the completed line at Wharanui. It is anticipated that the 21-mile section from Wharanui to the Clarence River will be finished and ready for the running of such commercial trains as are necessary by September at the present rate of progress, though there is some fairly heavy work ahead, y The South Main Trunk should ba'open for traffic as a completed unit of the New Zealand railway system within • three years. ■ ;
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21244, 27 January 1931, Page 8
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147SOUTH MAIN TRUNK. Otago Daily Times, Issue 21244, 27 January 1931, Page 8
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