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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1234, 16 September 1911, Page 13

Considerable interest has beea shown in Auckland during the past few da-ye in the huge cases whick have been discharged from the Rimutaka. The caste contained machiEery for tho now ICOO kilowatt generator set which th« Auckland Electric Tramway* Company is iastalling. The bedplate and shaft, weighing over 20 tons, was the biggsit package to bo trar.fipr.rtod. Siltojn horses wero used for tJhis purpose. It is exjHct&d to have the new plant rusuine; about the beginning of November. When this work is oompl&ted, the company will be tlusroughly. prepared to eojra with aoy load that occasion may Eecoswitat-o. Three rkwo Babcoek and Wilcox boilers bars been, installed, and tested and inspected, making a total of 12. At the Epsom sub-etatioß a new sflO-kil-3wa.tt meter Kenorator (the tliird) , k now being laid down, and the Epso-m carjheds' capacity L) beiuj; nearly doubled. When complete, it will accommodate 90 cars. Over 60 air-brak<js have been ' fitted te cars, and all ca.ra are now beiug-, fitted wift metei-s, in or/W to ascertain the amount of power each car iitilis&s. Already the meters have been fitted on 80 cars. Two new cars (107 and 108) are now ready, and, on being paswd by . the Public Works Department, will b» immediately placed in commission. There has not been a single pawnbroker in Ouebsc for the last thirty years. The vajaric3 of the railway faror where the ireneral rates come into conflict with subnrban fores nro amusins to.thoso who do .not snffer thereby (wr,it«s our Auckland corrynondent).' Two ladies who went second-class from GreenJ.ine to Afrmurewa this wrek are at a loss to' utidor«t,'iid whv thev sbonlil liavo b<»=n char(T«l 2s. 2d. return, wlvn hid they token tliPiT ■ Meets from" Auckbnd,, an extra eicht mi!os in the train ther? and baik, thev could have traveller! for Is. 5(1. Another lady of fame pnrtr fnrnd pvfn worse, as wnnt from Anrklind, but was allowH to brp-ik li»r iourney nt Gropnlnnc to ioin l>er friend*, bennueo. th.it was uot within the twfT>tvtnilol limit, nnd Imd fo rnv G(l. extri. fnretoSs. B'!., when she p.'iu''l liavn dn«o the wiiolo imirn»y from Auckland to Kinm'owfi .ind bicV for Is. M. N T o .doubt tlifl mMhr mil bo orn'nnior! bv tl<p r-i-'!wny authorities, but thn oflirial who l.ric-1 t" cmvi-ce t'>o S « lnilifs would havo a lively quarter of an hour.