25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 31, 31 October 1932, Page 8

25 YEARS AGO

Trains Run to Ohakune

(From “The Dominion,” Oct. 31, 1007.)

By the liner Opawa, due from London in a week’s time, will arrive 45 knots of new cable, which is to be laid from Lyall Bay across Cook Strait by the Tutanekai, which steamer is now being fitted for the work at the Railway Wharf. The new cable is to supplement those already down and which are at times fully employed in coping with the telegraphic traffic between the two islands. The whole of the work is to be done under the supervision of Mr. J. K. Logan.

In connection with the train service beyond Mataroa, on the Main Trujik line, it is proposed to extend the running of the passenger train to OhaJrune as from November 1. The effect of this will be to shorten the coach trip by six miles, and to accelerate the journey of passengers from the north, who will now be able to reach Mataroa at 5.45 p.m., connecting with the train for Taihape which leaves at 6.25.

Inability to find a seaman out of work Jn a shipping centre like Wellington seems almost incredible. Yet the Blackball collier Petone was delayed from Tuesday night until 11 a.m. yesterday through being unable to seefcre a seaman to replace a deserter.

The steamer Changsha, which has arrived here (Brisbane) from HongKong, has brought sixteen Manchuria u ponies, which are to be forwarded to New Zealand for Commander Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition.

Probatfly nowhere in the world are there to be found so many institutions cramped into so small a space as in the case- of the hospital block at Newtown. In a space of a few acres is the hospital proper (which includes the fever ward), the Nurses’ Home (which must be contiguous), the Home for Aged and Needy (which must not be), the Victoria Home for Chronic Invalids at the rear flank, anel the consumptive annexes a biscuit throw away on the hill behind.