25 YEARS AGO
17 Hours To Auckland
From "The Dominion.’’ January 13, 1914.
The new General Manager of the New Zealand Railways (Mr. E. H. Hiley) is considering the advisability of shortening the traveling time of both the Main Trunk express and the Napier mail train. It is considered that the trip to Auckland from Wellington can be done in I'7 hours, and that one hour and 20 minutes can be taken off the Napier run.
The Blenheim oil well at Moturoa, New Plymouth, first drilled under the supervision of an. Austrian expert, Herr Ritter von Federowicz, is developing very satisfactorily. It yielded ten barrels on Tuesday last, eighteen on Wednesday, twentyfive on Thursday, and thirty-three on Friday.
The Australian Federal PostmasterGeneral has granted 20 new wireless tele( graph licences - , bringing the total number’ in Australia to 423.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 94, 14 January 1939, Page 8
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13825 YEARS AGO Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 94, 14 January 1939, Page 8
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