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Grey River Argus, 26 July 1922, Page 6

A writer in a northern weekly says: 1 note that twelve tons anil a-half of “geli” wore busted oil at Whangarci to blow cut large quantities of limestone and the nib expert said 7t tois the record bust of New Zealand, lhere was a considerable rumpus of “geli” at P’pncarrow, YVellington, about thirteen years ago, when the Government busted off twelve tons of explosives to blow out stone for Hutt line ballast. Apparently the art of busting up a big shot by electricity was m its infancy and a young new chum engineer was entrusted with the gear. He touched her off and she blew the side of the cliff (and the engineer) to bits. Nobody ever tried to beat the Government in those days. They used to take tho boulders across the harbour in scows. The boulders were tallied on the Penearrow side and in the good old Government way paid for on the basis. What happened to hundreds of tons of rock half way across they were stacked in walls close to the outside edge of the scow deck—who knows? The rocks that didn’t straighten the Hutt lino would make 4 a tolerable young Himalaya,