TENDERS CALLED.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18898, 13 January 1927, Page 8

TENDERS CALLED.

TUNNEL BLECn«P^J| AN EARLY | All doubts as to the Government regarding «l«Mj!?Sl the Lyttellon tunnel should J3jf by the action of the fi«il*«»t|r? merit, which is now ratiisa the supply of electrical electric, locomotives (or thsrf.l clinrch Lyttelton section oi Hb* ?8 When Mr G. W. Wy] M) tfM Electrical Engineer, \nit*4 flg church no vend weeks <lgo Jjj Hie survey of the tunnel, tjffil n representative oi Thk PgJjfl a decision would he system of wiring to lie iuittMfD a short period, hinting thTHcS most likely to bo adopted'wmeU head eatennry system. mriit *s failure to make ait iJjSa nient regarding its intentianjjSsS period hud etupsed was CQnttdoSf Boine jieople in Christehurcbas tre that the scheme had be«n hjjlj that tlio Department infaßQ alternative means of tract(oa,TlS nothing further would be ify/XM after the return of the lMn||| ter. the High! Hon. ,1 U CMt|fj| Britain. 3531 Np Postponenunt.'lip When the members of tli&-j|§j! Board passed through Uhfißt«uß Tuesday morning, the ,T. Jones, made it clear that anyjjj to this effect had no fuundatuS the Department intended to cam! the work. M The tenders which it is invitßi the supply of overhead equiMj3g bo received by the chairmauj| Kailwny Board, Wellington, VfM on Monday, June OJh, 1927. M The number of electric !e-dt| for which tenders arc beiug Syl At the same time the PußJifll Department is calling way sub-station with the secretary, ers Board, Wellington,' Stiff"sS| June 7th. »,'"■. l: "■■fa Evidently the work. af.eMJtJjj will bo proceeded witlC|||g|£jj| for the closing date oE tendm|H supplv of: ironbark piles an|Jj|| timber for the Publie is February 13th. '4llßll

FALLACIES OF M PORT AND CITY COSttlM COMMENT. 'M The views of the Port and Cp| mittee were sought regard^'ll cisiou of the Qo\ eminent torn dcrs for tlie electrification* <i| tunnel, and the following sM was made: — Aa ''We regret to sco that the IS inent have now called tepdftt H electrification of the IffttcrftM church ljne. Again and »g#,H pointed out the absuid smm which tho scheme is basoj|||raj however, done what wo «l||jfe our duty to this piwinqjwjß the fact that the scheme *fi| ft 2.2 per cent, and the balgsi | to be found by the ratepay«| | proposition WJuph, far frgW 1 commercial benefit to the pirn 1 needless extravagance, *m.M steam-electric-steain terminal .» , i.U::OJ»I.V heajp ehjM chaos. It seems to us that V ernnient in shirking a piopor-jJ tion not only of Diesel traefffl also of modern tunnel vciitilaHQ ods, on both of which subject ill-informed, is obviously m corned with the political IiaTOH a province than with tho tecra| economic factors. A*, "We wain tho public that>ffi bo no relief from the Stgflkjjtl until towards the end/«|/}W§ the scheme is supposeded, and by which timoftcto m"! ably- anticipated thcrra-ljU, JM revplutionary developitafflßS wal forms of'traction tion that the present whKIJH pear even more uujustj§ea?j|§f "There is another posed electrification scpen»OTJ ther consolidate the strangl«is|| Government on our and on the wljarvos, »is||ll§j in itself, is an 'added &sMsffl| to.fight to deliver Government dole and of a traffic, tunnel Lyttelton, both province." >(1 . /«9|