AUCKLAND RAILWAY TUNNEL.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 619, 23 September 1909, Page 11

AUCKLAND RAILWAY TUNNEL.

/^.ft'i'vf^UEOT^ ■•W^%: , ''^'- 6 ?^''s'? 1 /. ft . p^ '"' ''''- • ''■ ;^"bWa'id/'Septembor: 22."'' ;.. Vvln i the. course.: of; an.", inferviev,'; '*Mr.' Baft ! .;-Kent ..(president ■ of the ; Chamber .of Comine'rce) ;said;'tliat' Sii- Joseph 'Ward,, ; .speaking before '•-the,;cha.mbor,;sbra6'considerablb:timb ago,'stated- . ■ .in'eiTepKthatrif a,dozen business,nlen '■'.;■:. assiife•,him i that.there■Vasaieed for' the' dupli- •.'.■. calibn"of. thb tunnel'ho wbultl■have,tho'. work '.-i 'put ln:'hftnd.-?^ : .?"-^"' , ': f ''W; , :f:/';!;r'-V:;/ ■-•./• -•; '■'v VJV& h '*«W'-; Sir . Joseph'. bf ;VtHia Cneed," ;■-. ;■ said ;;Jlr..*Kent;-/'and have, .written toShim on-: ■'the': subject, foyer; andf/ bvefv'again'.r-without .■,■• -There'Os;.' a .'unanimous .consensus "'•' of •! ■■'.■/'opimon-;among9t .'the members, of. the chamoer ;;■■;, tEat;;the ; ;Pnme Minister should fulfil '■ his' pro-' ;.mise.' -In the first place,' .there Ought never -to"! ■.v>lpve-:b4en;a. tunnel, butfas^.there' isTone'and in ■^:-yie i /; ■; traffib/bn"tha Auokliind.: line; .the/ duplication ■'. M^s^;?v&t ■<*>:: te r undertaken ■ withp.'Out./fUrther Joss Of; time.;/. It -is, certainly un-' : ;/i:f*w'--iiflt;tp;dßplieat6:'the.''Earn'ell tunnel^h£ ■;; tho-duplication'-of'-Pne::of far less:iinDortiiwV '/; in " -""-^ :wenKpn to pay /that .the "Chamber r/oteComtnerco initiated theiduplication:;of the. Parnell.ttinnel for a' ~: nbw /railway; station, and 'for-.'a/inew'rtnef :-r- : *B«V; Of -that ;«clienlo the-pnly;/portiohso P far , ■■■ ; put,m 'hand-.-was; the. post ofGce. .The old roil' ~;, way-station had'certainly been ; .improved but ■'• : ,; wa 3 whilst not ; .:Wowj.had; been cotintctiohvitith 'the .tunnel.. ..The.ohamber should ;continuoto ari- :» t these last; two mattersfwerbattended ;■;.., to .\by;,<tha Gpvcrninent..;;;!' -■./;::>;,',,/.■■;', "