SOUTH ISLAND RAILWAY.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18598, 20 June 1930, Page 6

SOUTH ISLAND RAILWAY.

SURVEY WORK PROCEEDING. By Telegraph—Press Association. BLENHEIM, June 19. In reference to further surveying of the route of the South Island Main Trunk Railway, Mr Wilson, Government engineer, has returned from the Lewis Saddle survey, and he and his party are pitching camp on the Kaikoura side of the Hapuku river. Mr Wilson said they would take up the survey where he left it on the northern side of the river, and define the line on which the Hapuku bridge would be constructed. The party would then proceed with the survey down to and through Kaikoura, till it met Mr Stewart’s party at the southern end. The latter party was now camped at Claverly. Indications are that on completion of the survey to Kaikoura, construction work would be actively prosecuted in that locality, which is the central point. This would mean a considerable speeding up of the rate of progress with the work of completing the South Main Trunk. Further north a commencement will be made with the manufacturing of ferro-ooncrete trial piles for the Clarence bridge. A test will be made to see if piles of this type are preferable to cylinders. Authority has been given for an immediate start with the planting of marram grass south of the Clarence river, where it is hoped a large camp of men will be established for construction work.