HUGE UNDERTAKINGS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 940, 5 April 1930, Page 10

HUGE UNDERTAKINGS

ENTERPRISE IN CANADA RAILWAYS AND HOTELS The huge undertaking of the Canj adian National Railways In the eonj struction of new terminals at Montreal has attracted several New Zealanders across the Pacific to seek employment. The cost of the scheme amounts to £10,000,000 and of this amount the sum of £2,000,000 has been allocated for this year. The work will be spread over a period of five years. But there are many big constructions under way or recently completed in Canada. Work is proceeding rapidly on a new £ 1,600,000 hotel at ' Vancouver. The “Nova Scotian,” tile magnificent new hotel at Halifax, will be opened in the spring. It is hoped to complete a new hotel at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, by July next. A fine hotel in' the renaissance style will be also built this year at Saskatoon, one of the great centres of Saskatchewan. Additional accommodation is also being added to Jasper Park Lodge to take care of the ever-increasing number of visitoi-s. Three new steamers will be launched and put Into service this year on the Alaska and triangle tour. This will pi-ovide six Canadian National steamers for this service. From Vancouver to Victoria, 8.C., and Seattle, the steamers engaged will provide a new and faster schedule, making the journey from Vancouver to Victoi-ia in three and three-quarter houi-s and from Victoria to Seattle in three hours. FASTER TRAINS The Canadian National Railways has placed orders for 30 new locomotives. Some of the new passenger engines will be larger and more powerful than the well-known “6,000” type, probably the best known locomotive in the world. In addition orders have been placed for 120,000 tons of steel for construction and 5,000 box cars, all given to firms in Canada. The sum of £1,000,000 will be spent in the workshops at Point St. Charles, at Montreal. A new railway station will be built at Hamilton, Ontario. The new stock yards will be completed at MontreaL and a new station will be built at Parry Sound, also a new yard and additional terminal facilities at Sarnia.

It is estimated that the Canadian National branch line programme will cost at least £2,000,000. Two hundred and sixty miles of lines will be graded, 205 miles of steel laid, and 257 miles of ballasting done. On lines already in operation 886 miles of steel will be laid. This work will require 133,381 tons of steel.