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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 1 July 1943, Page 6

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HUNDALEE-OARO CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.—A subsidence occurred on the HundaleeOaro section of the railway yesterday and the passenger train to-day could not negotiate this section. The Public Works Department, which controls thiC section of the line, expects to have it ready for traffic to-morrow. It is anticipated that all rail traffic wiLl got through to-day, although delays in arrival times are expected.—P-A. WAV ELL MADE A VISCOUNT LONDON, June 30. —It has been announced from No. 10 Downing Street that Field Marshal Wavell has been made a Viscount. —Field Marshal Wavell will be the new Viceroy of India when Lord Linlithgow retires this year* DEVELOPMENTS IN RUSSIA RUGBY, June 30.—Since the war the Soviet has built several thousand kilometres of new railways, including an important line to Kazahstan. The main sections of the old lines in the east are being double-tracked. A total of 39 per cent more building work has been done in zones in the East in 1042 in the same area in 1940, and this Is 6till increasing, states a Russian publication. Hundreds of new coalmines with many millions of tons output have been opened since the war, but the Soviet Government is still unsatisfied and is pressing for further developments in Moscow, the Urals and the Karaganda Coalfields.—B.O.W. HABITUAL CRIMINAL AUCKLAND, This Day.—Francis Henry Gordon Guilford, 51, was sentenced by Judge Fair to-day to 6$ years’ imprisonment on a list of 35 burglaries at Hamilton, Palmerston North, Wellington, Christchurch, Wanganui, New Plymouth and Auckland. He stole £7OO in bank notes from a hotel in Palmerston North, about £4OO worth of Jewellery at Lower Huff and £IOSO worth of jewellery at Christchurch. The prisoner is a declared habitual criminal with a long record-