RAPID PROGRESS MADE.
SOUTH ISLAND RAILWAY. ACTIVITY AT PARNASSUS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. ‘Entering the second year of activity since its resumption by the present Government, work on the construction of the South Island Main Trunk Railway northwards from Parnassus has reached a stage at which progress is becoming steadily more pronounced and within two months the line itself will begin to take shape. It is expected that the spanning of the Leader River with a steel and concrete bridge will be completed by about the end of September and at that time it is intended to commence laying plates for the first section of the extension. Material for 15 miles of permanent way has arrived at Parnassus and it is considered likely that in a little more than 12 months the line will be opened as far north as Hundalee for the transport of all forms:of traffic. The railhead will then be within 22 miles of Kaikoura.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20266, 7 August 1937, Page 10
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159RAPID PROGRESS MADE. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20266, 7 August 1937, Page 10
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