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A BIG QUESTION

IMPROVING LYTTELTON TUNNEL

(BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) a WELLINGTON, Sept. 18. xt Reputation Christchurch and North Canterbury members of Parliament waited on the Minister for Railways and the Prime Minister to-day to present the resolutions passed at a meeting at Christchurch urging the speedy duplication and electrification of the Lyttelton tunnel. The Hon. J. G. Coates said that about a year ago he had a conference with commercial authorities and others, with the object of drawing up a comprehensive report on the development question, but the strike and other things interfered. The result would he incorporated in the railway statement as a special paper, which would he presented to Parliament next week. Mr. Massey pointed out that a lot of public money had heen spent on the Otira tunnel and the Lake Coleridge scheme. He could not add to what Mr. Coates had said, but hoped to congratulate Canterbury people soon when a start was made on the work. He could not say when it would he finished

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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 19 September 1924, Page 5

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A BIG QUESTION Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 19 September 1924, Page 5

A BIG QUESTION Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 19 September 1924, Page 5

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