The chairman of the City Council«. Works Committee (Cr. J. W.. Beanland) told a reporter on . Saturday that every endeavour ,is being made, in conjunction with the Tramway Board, to put in hand immediately thJI reconstruction of Colombo street, from Carlyle stwet B°« thward R „ Hastines street. The Tramway Board gyKS asked to deal with the,nu£ ter as on© of urgency. In vie* of the possibility, owing to power shortage of the Board having.to «se its steam locomotives for passenger traffic, « which case they would not, be» available for the reconstruction work, the Wotks Committee has offered to of its motor trucks at the disposal oi the Board. Stewart Island M«»rtS.ff quite an invasion of seals recency. Some vis tors who walked «> "lason a B»v and Hellfire beaches reported that several seals- were ashore on the ».ands ihpra and that each one seemedl to.be snfferinK from the effects of or attacks from sharks a 6 aH were rnore or lees wounded In.Patersons h let at the Neck quite a number were also observed, and they also bore S wounds-on the shoulders and tail. NTdoubt this was caused by fitting during the mating ww Jto ".arar Hv were sea lions, but two fnr seais. wore seen on Ringannga beacn..
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20039, 22 September 1930, Page 15
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