THE M IDL A YD X A IL W A I.
THE TUNNEL 'CONTRACT. GREYMOUTH, January L 4. Messrs McLean and "Sons, contractors foi the Midland railway tunned put on a gang of men to-day for the first time to clear away debris from the site of the tunnel* mouth. Th» operation, though equivalent in a sense to turning the first sod, did not involve any ceremony. Although a goad deal of preparatory -work hae been performed, there is necesarily a great deal of the same class -of work still to be. doneu especially in connection with the supply ol hydraulic power. The huts for the workmen are practically finished and' reedy fox occupation. A few visitors w.ho< happened to be passing the tunnel entrance to-day can boast of having seen the actual commencement at the western moutdi of tha ! Midland railway tunnel — a work destined to greatly figure in the future history ol 'New Zealand
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Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 39
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156THE MIDLA YD X AILWAI. Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 39
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