SOUTH ISLAND MAIN LINE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1003, 20 June 1930, Page 18

SOUTH ISLAND MAIN LINE

SURVEY PROGRESSING FAST Press Association BLENHEIM, Thursday. Reference to the further surveying of the route of the South Island Main Trunk railway was made today by Mr. Wilson, Government engineer, who has returned from a survey of the Lewis Saddle. He and his party are pitching camp on the Kaikoura side of the Hapuku River. Mr. Wilson said he would take up the survey where he left it, on the northern side of the river, and define a line on which the Hapuku Bridge would be constructed. The party would then proceed with the survey down to and through Kaikoura, until it met Mr. Stewart’s party at the southern end. The latter party was now camped at Cloverly. Indications were that on completion of the survey to Kaikoura, construction would be actively prosecuted in that locality, which was the central point. This would mean a considerable speeding up of the rate of progress. A start would be made shortly with the manufacturing of ferroconcrete trial piles for the Clarence Bridge. A test would be made to see if piles, of this type were preferable to cylinders. Authority had been given for an immediate start with the planting of marram grass south of the Clarence River, ' where it was a large camp of men would be fablished for work on construction ot uhe line.