MAIN TRUNK LINE.
After personal inspection the Minister of Pubic Works is confident that trains will be running into Taihapo by June nest. The contract for erecting the station at that place has been accepted some time, and the material is now on the spot. The line beyond Taihape to Mataroa is progressing well, the chief works on the section being a large embankment and the Matero tunnel. In this tunnel the work is proceeding night and day, the men being divided into three shifts of eight hours each. There are at present about five hundred men engaged on the work at this side of the gap. ________________
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7684, 6 February 1904, Page 6
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107MAIN TRUNK LINE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7684, 6 February 1904, Page 6
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