POWERFUL GLASSES.
Sir,—Your .paragraph of a recent date regarding an ascent of Ruapehu is cf great interest, but there must be some misunderstanding when the party say that "by the aid of a powerful glass they were able to trace a portion of the railway track over the far-distant Rimutakas." This is quite impossible under any circumstances. The track over the Eimutaka is on the wrong side of the range to be seen from Riiapehu by any glass, unless, aided perhaps by something stronger than Baptist classes are -snn° posed to iudulgc in.—l am, etc., PARATETAITOUGA.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1110, 25 April 1911, Page 3
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