OTIRA TUNNEL.
MISTAKEN CANADIANS. One of the unlooked-for results of the completion of the Otira Tunnel is a rhapsody, in strange words, from Canada. An exchange just to hand from Montreal gives us the credit of having completed a “wonderful and m&st important feat in engineering,” the making of Arthur’s Pass Tunnel—which “runs right across the South Island from one coast to the other.” Throughout its entire length, the wondering Canadian is told, there is not a single curve, and of course he hardly needs to be assured in addition that “New Zealand has the distinction of possessing the longest tunnel in the British Empire.” . But why > only in the Empire? The Severn Tunnel, which has previously held the record, is 4 miles 636 yards. Mont Cenis is 7 miles 1320 yards, the St. Gothard over 9 miles, the Simplon a trifle more than 12. What longer tunnel is there than from the' West Coast of New Zealand to the East? STone. But the Canadians think that blew Zealand is only 5 miles wide. They have the length of our new wonder to a yard—an example of accuracy which we could commend much more heartily if they were not just 25 times too absurd in estimating the width of our island.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15887, 27 July 1923, Page 5
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211OTIRA TUNNEL. Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15887, 27 July 1923, Page 5
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