RIMUTAKA TUNNEL
CONSTRUCTION TO PROCEED AT OPPORTUNE TIME. DELAY ON ACCOUNT OF WAR. The Government intends to proceed with the construction of the Rimutaka Tunnel 'as soon as the time is opportune. This information has been given by the Minister of Public Works, Mr Armstrong, in reply to a question asked, in the House of Representatives by Mr J. Robertson, member for Masterton. Mr Robertson asked the Minister of Public Works whether he would, on the completion of the main tunneling works on the Gisborne-East Coast railway line, arrange for the transfer of-JT sufficient plant and men to enable a start to be made on the Rimutaka Tunnel, the survey of which he understood was now near completion. Mr Armstrong, in reply, said it was the intention of the Government to proceed with the construction ~pf the Rimutaka Tunnel and the job would already have been under way had the war not intervened. The scheme, he said, had not been abandoned and it would be gone on with as soon as the time was opportune.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 October 1941, Page 4
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175RIMUTAKA TUNNEL Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 October 1941, Page 4
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