SOUTH ISLAND RAILWAYS
WORK ON MAIN TRUNK LINE DIFFICULT SURVEYING TASK (Special to “Chronicle”) WELLINGTON Dec. 6. The protracted work on the survey of the South Island Main. Trunk is now drawing to a close and constructional work is within measurable distance of beginning. Difficult country on the southern end of the new railway link has made the task of surveying and performing grade tests for alternative routes one of more than usual difficulty. Here the survey has been finished and the grade tests checked, while the route which the new line will follow on this section is now practically determined. In the north, however, work proceeds and no definite date for completion can be given by the Public Works Department. The northern end, however, sees formation work steadily pushed ahead. A total of 182 men, about half of them relief workers, is employed here. When the construction will begin on a large scale is shortly to be largely a matter for the Government to decide.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 291, 7 December 1929, Page 9
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