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EXHIBIT H. Tunnels done by Contract.

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Railway. Contract or Tunnel. Dimensions. Contractor. Date. Length. Total Cost. Cost per „ t T.ineel Total Cost Lineal Yard Ltatae P er Excavaring. Yard ' l*«"ng. L i nea l Yardi Nature of Ground. Nature of Lining. Hurunui-Blufi Gaveraham Lyttelton Tunnel .. Chain Hills 15 ft. x 12 ft. 15 ft. x 12 ft. J. Brogden and Sons 1873 1874 Lin. vds. 902 1| miles 484 £ £ s. d. 9 0 0 £ a. d. 15 0 0 £ s. d. 24 0 0 65 0 0 53 8 0 Sandstone Volcanio In faulty day slate Not lined. Cost as obtained. Dunedin-Clutha Mount Cenis Double line, 26 ft. x 26 ft. 206 0 0 Dunedin-Moeraki Deborah Bay 15 ft. x 12 ft. D. and J. McKenzie 1874 1,400 25,000* 15 0 oj 18 0 0 9 in., 13 13 6 14in.,19 3 6 18 in., 25 0 0 [ £28 to £40 fit had to be all lined -! as an addition to ( contract. Brick; lined all through as an extra after wards. Tokomairiro-Lawrence Round Hill H • • Morrison and Irvine 1874 176 3,739| Otago Central Hindon Section (five tunnels) Livingstone Branch C. and W. Gore Cuthbert and Stewart 1884-86 1884-85 three, 433 two, 118 286 5,000 12 10 0 15 0 0 7 10 0 21 10 0 31 0 0 10 0 0 33 0 0 46 0 0 17 10 0 Masonry walls, briok arcb. Waitaki-Blufl North Island Main Trunk Auckland-Helensville Wellington-Woodville Edendale-Toetoes Nelson-Belgrove Porootatao J. J. O'Brien 1885-87 1,166 38,733 13 6 0 19 18 0 33 4 0 Papa and sandstone Ditto Waitakerei Waiwaka Glenham Tunnel .. Spooner's Range .. M. Danagher A. Menzies A. Maguire 1879-80 1886-88 1887-88 1890 (about) 1890 1890 1890 242 165 220 1,474 8.032J 4,605 4,166 12 10 0 11 7 0 6 2 0 20 15 0 16 11 0 12 16 0 33 5 0 27 17 0 18 18 0 20 13 0 Boulder deposit Briok. Lined. Catlin's River Branch Blenheim-Awatere North Island Main Trunk Manawatu Gorge Helensville North Catlin's Tunnel Utawai Mangaonoho 15 ft. 6 in. xl2ft. 6in.' D. Kirkwood McGrath and Burke Cleghorn, Forest, and Magee 268| 77 110, 88 6,271 2,024 5,055 11 13 0 11 0 0 12 15 0 11 14 0 15 3 0 13 5 0 23 7 0 26 3 0 25 15 0 Very hard rock Papa Tunnels Makarau J. McLean and Son.. 1890-97 "627 11,846} 8 6 0 10 4 0 31 10 0 18 10 0 Clay slate In papa and sandstone Rotten granite Sound. Westport-Inangahua.. No. 2 Contract No. 10 Contract .. No. 14 Contract Arthur's Pass 17 ft xl5ft. D. McLellan Maxwell and Mann.. D. McLellan J. McLean and Son.. 1910 1911 1911 1907-12 88 256 176 9,354 3,518 10,260 8,000 568,000 19 0 0 16 10 0 31 6 0 37 5 0 21 0 0 23 10 0 14 3 0 23 10 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 45 9 0 60 15 0 Concrete. Midland 16 ft. 9 in. x 15 ft. Clay slate * About £20,000 extras. t And extras. { About £7,500 extras were paid chiefly on tunnel in bad ground where extra lining was used.