SOUTH ISLAND MAIN TRUNK
CAUSE OF DELAY STATEMENT BY MR SEMPLE (United Press Association.) Christchurch, September 12. Only delay in providing accommodation, chiefly because of the difficulty of securing timber from the West Coast, has been responsible for the relatively small number of men starting work on the South Island Main Trunk railway according to a statement made this morning by the Minister of Public Works (the Hon. R. Semple). Mr Semple said that about 350 men were now employed, 190 of them being at the south end. There would be no further delay, he said. The engineers had accommodation available and the numbers would be increased week by week until a maximum of 400 at the south end was reached. A maximum of 800 men in all would be employed.
Five hundred men were now employed on the Gisborne line, but that number would be increased to between 1000 and 1200.
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Southland Times, Issue 22994, 14 September 1936, Page 8
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