OTIRA TUNNEL.
ELECTEITICATION OONTEACT.
(By Cable—Press Association— Copyright.) (United Serrioe.).
LONDON, March 31. Sir James Allen has placed a contract for the electrification of the Otira Tunnel, involving £2oO,(KW. Shipments to the New Zealand Government order of 12,000 tons of rails will be<nn in April. The -wheels and jisles have already been shipped to New Zealand. The first locomotives will bo sent in June, and thereafter each, four weeks until 45 Have been despatched. A total of 2500 waggons will follow.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17109, 2 April 1921, Page 9
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81OTIRA TUNNEL. Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17109, 2 April 1921, Page 9
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