A POLICE RAID

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 39, 15 August 1921, Page 8

A POLICE RAID

(«T TKLianAH!.—PMSS ASSOCIATION.)

CHRISTCHURCH, 13th August. Premises occupied by Harold Ritchie, tobacconist, at' 168, Armagh-street, were raided to-day, and as a result Ritchie appeared in the_ Magistrate's Court charged with keeping a common gam-ing-house. He was remanded 6n bail of £100.

/The management of the WellingtonCanterbury, match at the 'Athletic Park on, Saturday .was carried out in an efficient manner, und much credit is due to the officials of the local Bugby Union, In the display of the first Test scores there' is also reason for expression of appreciation,' and this is particularly di> rected to the telegraph and telephone officials for the prompt despatch of messages. The progress scores from Dunedin were posted,on the board at Athletic Park two minute's after the messages had been handed in sit the southern office, The Wellington Rugby Union also ex* press.es thanks.to the voluntary workers at the Parki The estimated cost of the proposed new tunnel under the Thames \between Gravosend mid Tilbury, to link up. the Kent and Essex railways,. is £2,500,000. If 'lie project is carried out, it will be the most expensive Thames tunnel yet constructed. There are eight tunnels altogether, excluding tubes. The most historic tunnel is the Thames Tunnel, which lends from Wapping to Rotlierliitlie. Work on this was starterl in .11)24, bill oWing to the river breaking through on several occasions, it was not completed till 1843.