Last Thursday was a day of rejoicing for Italian workers on the Tongariro Power Development Scheme as the holethrough came on the long Tawhitikuri-Whakapapa tunnel. However it has not always been smiles as this
roadside shrine erected by the tunnellers indicates. The shrine was erected by the Italians after two of their colleagues were killed in a motor accident near the tunnel in 1969. Their bodies were flown back to their native Italy for burial.
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Taupo Times, Volume 20, Issue 4, 19 January 1971, Page 1
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75Last Thursday was a day of rejoicing for Italian workers on the Tongariro Power Development Scheme as the holethrough came on the long Tawhitikuri-Whakapapa tunnel. However it has not always been smiles as this roadside shrine erected by the tunnellers indicates. The shrine was erected by the Italians after two of their colleagues were killed in a motor accident near the tunnel in 1969. Their bodies were flown back to their native Italy for burial. Taupo Times, Volume 20, Issue 4, 19 January 1971, Page 1
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