OTIRA TUNNEL.
FIVE YEARS: TO FINISH IT. . Thero has been much speculation as to when tho Otira tunuel will be completed (says . » Christchuroh "Press" correspondent), but most of tho views expressed have been too optimistic, for at the present rate of progress it will be hilly another , five years before this great undertaking is finished. Tho work has been in band now .well over Bix years. The progress that is beins made is much the samo'as usual, although the last two weeks have been a hove, the-average. Ontsido." a good deal of permanent work is being car- . i-iod out. Tho new steam power-house na.s been completed, and was under i steam for trial on Monday. The foundations arc facinpc put inifor a new compressor house, 80ft. by 40ft. Tho tipJiead is now well down over- the Christchurch Road, and Otira Central is a immature city, with its blaze of electric light, which from the tip lights the
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2145, 11 May 1914, Page 5
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157OTIRA TUNNEL. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2145, 11 May 1914, Page 5
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