RAIL WORK IN SOUTH

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 923, 17 March 1930, Page 8

RAIL WORK IN SOUTH

MAIN TRUNK COMPLETION PROSPECTS FOR WINTER From Our Own Correspondent BLENHEIM. Today. Excellent progress is being made with the construction of the South. Island Main Trunk and there is evidence to nhow that when winter brings unemployment in the Dominion to a head the Paiviassus end of the line will become a point of mobilisation for all the South Island’s unemployed. .Already gangs are at work preparing sites for large camps there and it is stated that villages of huts will be erected. For four miles from Parnassus there can be seen the beginnings of new cuttings and fillings, each piece of work being done by a separate gang. On the way from Blenheim the first w*orks are seen a mile or so below Kekerangu, where a fair-sized camp has been established. It is expected that the rails will reach Kekerangu within two or three months. At present the railhead is four or five miles south '■f Wharanui. Within a year it seems probable tbfi. the railhead will have reached the Clarence River, so that it is fully time that plans were made for the work over the difficult country between the Clarence and the flapuka Rivers. This* section will include large bridges over the tivo rivers and at least one tunnel.