WANGANUI ENTERPRISE.
NEW ELEVATOR OPENED. ." [BT . TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WANGANUI. Saturday. The Durie Hill elevator was officially opened by the Mayor on Saturday afternoon. This work, the largest of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, was begun shortly after the outbreak of the war, and has been carried on steadily ever since. The tunnel is 700 ft long, and commences just across the road from the Town Bridge, and an electric elevator then carries passengers 216 ft, when they emerge at the flagstaff, a point known to tourists the world over, and generally recognised as affording one of the finest sights in the world. The elevator is the result, of ' the enterprise of Brigadier-General A. E. Wilson and Mr. W. - J. Poison, who are also, establishing, a garden suburb on the hill a few- yards from theelevates station.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17229, 4 August 1919, Page 4
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