MIDLAND RAILWAY
ARTHUR’S PASS TUNNEL. A BIG BRIDGE. Press Association. WELLINGTON, January 9. Air. N. AlcLean, one of the contractors for the Arthur’s Pass tunnel, who left for the south yesterday will start men opening up the Ot'ira approach to tlie tunnel pending the arrival of drivving machinery and other plant from Europe. Air. J. AlcLean, who is in London, in a letter to the firm here, states that he has investigated all the best known drilling machinery and has ordered an Ingersol! air plant, which will be driven- by electricity, the power for which will be obtained from the streams in the vicinity of the tunnel. Air. G. Fraser, who built the steel bridge over the Waikato river at Cambridge (the only one of the kind in Australasia), has come to the Capital to confer with the Public Works Department regarding the contract he has secured for the erection of the Alidland Railway viaduct over the Sloven Creek, thirteen miles from Springfield. The brigde, which will be of steel, will be 600 feet- long. The preliminary excavations ha-ve been started and the steel work is shortly expected from Home. 'The contract nrico is £21,400.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2085, 10 January 1908, Page 2
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