<p><strong>HATAITAI. WELLINGTON.</strong> <strong>Construction on,</strong> what would become, <strong>Mount Victoria Tunnel</strong> began in <strong>December 1929</strong> and was estimated to take <strong>15 </strong>months and cost around<strong> £132,000<em> </em></strong><em>(approximately</em><strong><em> $16,000,000</em></strong><em> today)</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Two teams of diggers</strong> began on each side of the mountain and began tunnelling through. The initial breakthrough occurred on the <strong>31st of May 1930</strong>, six months into construction.</p>
<p><strong>Construction of the tunnel</strong> continued into the next year. However, sometime in early<strong> July 1931</strong>, construction on the tunnel was halted. The workers were contacted by police to cease work on the project. </p>
<p><strong>Over the next three days,</strong> over <strong>100 </strong>police and relief workers sifted through over <strong>2,000 </strong>tons of rock and soil from the excavation. They were searching for something, <strong><em>but what were they searching for, who were they searching for?</em></strong></p>
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