NORTHLAND TUNNEL.
COMMISSION'S FINDING (ON QUESTION. DEFECTIVE IN CONSTRUCTION. ('Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Messrs Holmes and McLean, the Commission appointed by the City Council to enquire into the alleged faulty construction. of the Northland tunnel, which was to give tramway communication with the hill-lop suburb, report that they consider it is defective in construction, which is faulty throughout, and that, four officers, the city engineer, the district, engineer, thfl surveyor and l-ho tunnel foreman, must be held responsible.
Tim work, including £10,500 for the tramway, cost, with approaches, etc., is £38,000 net, and the Commission estimates the cost of making the tunnel safe at an extra £4OOO.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19260528.2.44
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17045, 28 May 1926, Page 7
Word Count
109NORTHLAND TUNNEL. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17045, 28 May 1926, Page 7
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in