SURVEY PUSHED ON

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17067, 27 September 1929, Page 3

SURVEY PUSHED ON

S.I. MAIN TRUNK SEARCH FOR BEST GRADE Unnecessary dolay on tho part of tho Government in commencing Urn construction of the South Wand Main Trunk line is •denied by the Public Works Department’s engineers, I* It is {tomt-ed out* that until ' the eontplete survey is finished it would be impossible to ‘begin a comprehensive -policy of construction. At the northern end of the lino, where GO men are pushing ahead with preparatory work, it would be uneconomic to begin the actual line construction, employing'large numbers of men, as most of this work will -be performed by steam shovels, and for these tho department is pot yet ready". In the south it is essenial that the completion of the-purvey should be awaited, because there ai'e a ivhmber of alternative routes and copipjicW’ SiuYCstigafion must be made before, the' final route can bo decided. • Hero tho engineers are searching for a better grade and have to complete special trials on the various routes which might be adopted; "' ’l lie trials then must bo examined and the final route pegged put. All this is expected tb consume at least another month, lii other portions of the country through which (lie line must pass the work may take longer, though large parties of surveyors are working as fast as possible. It is the heavy country that will absorb the most labor, and it is in this country that the surveying parties are;, now engaged.