THE “PIE CART”
My father, who is an clectrican, has to see that the overhead wires which carry the current for the electric engines are always in order.
This is needed more often in the winter, when we get the snow, or the heavy rainfalls in spring.
The “pie cart” runs by a petrol engine, but it does not go very fast. At the top of the gorge lies Lake Misery. The water from this
often drains through into the tunnel, m a kin;; it cold, miserable, and wet. The Otira river also How;; ever the tunnel. It is licit a very pleasant journey through the tunnel, as the dripping water is icy cold. In the winter the water freezes, making icicles.
Fixing wires is not a very easy task, as, dad often has to get up in the middle of the night and early hours of 'the morning.
—PAT KNIGHT (aged 10)
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22243, 6 November 1937, Page 3 (Supplement)
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