HUTT DUPLICATION WORKS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1002, 17 December 1910, Page 3

HUTT DUPLICATION WORKS.

THE END IN SIGHT. The duplication of the Hutt railivof lit) 0 and the accompanying reclamation-.' works;.at. Kaiwarra 'and Thoradoh arenow'rapidly approaching The double lino ofpermanent '.way ~. lias ?.. been brought to a point about three hundred yards distant from the north' end of Thorndou Esplanade, and tho interlocking System' of 'safety ; points : operated froni. tho new signal-box .at v Karwarra has-been completed. The new ' mound on which tho Manawatu Jino is to approach Thorndon from the,bridjja.; has been constructed, for the greater part of its length, although it has not : yet bc-en connected to tho bridge. Tho.-..'-line now taken by the mound cases con- - siderably thei curve- followed, by. ■ the .' track in its approach towards Thoriidoii. from, the bridge. • Originally negotiated in a length of nino chains of track, the / curve will now be distributed over* a' distance^of twenty chains.The Hutt" Road and-cycle. track hava' '■ been formed practically "-'throughout;- \ tlieir entire -length. . Between Petona and Paparangi point the road and track are complete in every respect,-the. trtick'- ■ being asphalted. -Between Paparangi point land Ngahauranga ' tho :,:.rciad is , completed, and "the track .formed', but * the latter .has not- yet 'been -asphalted;--as it is still traversed- on this section - bv-. the servico line, and all ".material■: that will be used .in .finishing' the- t-raik-'v ' has been distributed along the v rdute.':.\ From Ngahauranga-to a point-'soutli-of" Kaiwarra both' road' ahd footpath' hava been, completed, save for. a short length^-. of trackwhich.reinains to bo asphalte'cU?-;. Over -the- -section- from-'tho ' old-- Kai-'--'' warra Hotel to tho Manawatu ,'hridgW- - one-half: of. the. roadway has been- met--V ailed -and completed; and. work; is' pro-.: -V, ceeding apace.- 'on- the remaining nor- 1 tion., ; . A .reporter, who. visi^d.theiworksijcs-I: terday gathered that the whole-, under-" .taking would probably be-- : completed- by' about March . 31'ncxt: ; About 100 men 'are at present employed -on all :'sections of the work: ..The, maximum, number..: of men employed during its progress . was 350. . At. one--.tiihe -50 dravs were employed in transporting spoil, but,tho X : number was. reduced some raon.ths >a"g6' to four. These are : still m use . ' . What may be. regarded as a" "separata section .of the work..is a reclamation, area, - practicably completed, which' ex--tends I'ro'm Thopdon'to r a-'poiht. iiqrth* of the Manawatu. bridge, and: compris-:; ing- about 15- acres.; A-'start was: made with this reclamation i. just .about;' ii -,' year ago. Apart from the transport of'', spoil, the work-has giveu • employments on-an average to ten men durmg the- ■ fear.- A gang of. six, with a.ganger,;' has oeen employed-in'depositing 1 ana?.; distributing the spoil, a'nd three nieni have usually been-engaged in building-;-' the stone wall with which the work i 3 raced. The progress: of tho';. i-'eclama- 1 ' uion was greatly expedited by. the uso of a mammoth plough, which empties atrain of spoil -trucks -in the' space "of few minutes. In one day, with tho aid of .this '-useful appliance, the spoil, car- " ried by. 20S trucks, (approximately 1243 tons), has been- deposited, dn^.the 1 reclamation ground.;,-The plough'is'sim-"' ply a giant sloping share, of w.qod and .steel, which, is .set;.sl(uitwise acrosi,sh6A. rear truck in a traui,?.and pulled tojthal' other end by a wire:rope' attached to'a--. hauling engine. The men working-, this appliance , have bccome so expert, .in'• it 3 use that on 'occasion, they empty'tho spoil from:al train 0f.;15 trucks'in tha' space' of .seven. miniytos.-- *' .. ;; V The officer'ill . ch^e."of operations at r -the Hutt duplicatieaarorks rrar-Mr-nlr. Lee,,lnspector of'Pejijnancut-W ay.