THE ONGARUE LINE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144050, 20 March 1913, Page 2

THE ONGARUE LINE.

TENDERS FOR A TUNNEL. Per Press Association, WELLINGTON, March' 19. The Public Works Department is inviting tenders for the construction of the tunnel and the adjacent piece of line on the Stratford-Ongarue railway tunnel, which will pierce. a hill in a very' difficult piece of country at the eastern end, about four miles from the Main Trunk, and will provide a key to communication between the fertile Ohura Valley and the outside world. The tunnel will be about a mile long, and the Eiece of line to be built a mile and a alf over very broken country, requiring a remarkable zigzag route to', be adopted for the line.