THE WAIRARAPA DEVIATION
AND WELLINGTON WATER SUPPLY Some interest has been raised lately in the auestion of where Wellington shall seek increased water supply, having reirard to the possibility of the proposed tunnel under tho hill 'to Wairarapa may run near or under some of tho works proposed bv-the City Council. In the House of Representatives the Minister of Public Works was asked whether he will at an early date assure tho Wellinctou City Council that tho railway lino in connection • with any proposed ■ •deviation of the Wairarapa line will not > ■oass over the council's watershed at Wai-mui-o-ma'ta. Sir William Fraser (Minister of Pub- > lie. Works) replied: Tho Public Works Denartmeut. not yet having fully completed investigations into the best routo for the deviation-, is not prepared at the present time to state which route •will be adopted, The completion of the fnvestt'cation las been interrupted owing to the .. ereater number of the Department's en-gineers-ioining the-military forces in the recent Great War.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 296, 10 September 1919, Page 8
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162THE WAIRARAPA DEVIATION Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 296, 10 September 1919, Page 8
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