TUNNEL COMPLETED
PROGRESS ON THE TURAKINA DEVIATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WANGANUI. July 5. The Deniair tunnel, on the OkoiaTurakina railway deviation, started in October 1937. was finished yesterday and the tunnellers will be drafted to other public works. The time allowed in which to finish this work was by September. A smaller tunnel, at the southern end of Deniair, will bo finish cd within a month. Sixty chains of the Turakina tunnel have been driven and 40 chains are still to go. It is estimated that this will take a year. Work on formation and cuttings is nearing an end. when the population of Deniair Camp will be further reduced. Pile driving for the railway bridge across the Wangaehu River is under way. but the Turakina bridge has not yet been started.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1939, Page 8
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