BIG MERSEY TUNNEL
OPENED IN DENSE FOG Received Dec. 18, 8.45 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 18. The opening of the £8,000,000 Mersey tunnel, designed to expedite traffic to Lancashire and Cheshire when fog impedes the ferries, strangely coincided with the densest fog for years, demonstrating to ratepayers that they arc getting their money’s worth when a thousand, in a hurry, joined 40,000 sightseers, paying sixpence each to walk through, providing £1,250 for Christmas dinners for the poor. This will probably be the only occasion that the tunnel will be used by pedestrians. Thc fog extended from Cornwall to the Scottish border, except in the south-eastern corner of England.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 299, 19 December 1933, Page 7
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