RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 49, 26 August 1904, Page 4

RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES.

[BT TKLKOSAPH— I'B.BSS ASSOCIATION j THAMES, 25th August. One of ten locomotives which are beinjt built by Price Bros., Thames, »wai sank out of the workshops this afternoon in> tho presence of a Urge gathering. Thy total contract price was over £28,000. The locomotive is similar to those now being constructed «t the Ad<Kngton work shops. It is a stolcndid pieoo of work of the tank type (W F. class), nnd withontj exception is tho largest a«d heaviest tani: locomotive in New Zealand. Its length is 38ft, and the weight H2 tons. Thn boiler has a steel working pressure of two hundred pounds per square inch. The w*t*r tanks have a capacity oi 950 gallons. Everything worked "satisfactorily. Tho contractors were londl}* cheered as the engine entei«d the Qov« eminent sheds. Tho next will be rcadj' in a *ew weeks.

Spring Millinery, Spring Blousinga, Spring Jackets, Capes, and Blouses — in fact, everything for Spring wear is now on view at O. Smith's, CuWstroeJ;. Th«* selections in all department^ are mora artjsfcio than e^ver before, and calculated to assist Nature in making the ladies of We.U lington »till moro attractive. O. Smith* Cash' Draper, Cuba-street.— Advt