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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1681, 18 May 1904, Page 71 (Supplement)

Complaint has been made by the .Hutit County Council to the Traffic Superintendent of Railways that engines and trucks suddenly Crossing the road from the Ngahauranga station to the meat works in the gully is a menace to the, lives and limbs of the public. The Traffic Superintendent has replied that every care is taken at the crossing to lire vent accidents, and a man is always told off to warn travellers. “Tliere is not much to report/’ says Mr J. G. Cow, Trade Commissioner in South Africa, in a letter to the Minister of Industries and Commerce, in the way of business here in Durban. In some respects the pinch is being felt more than ever, and there are many insolvencies every week. At the same time, everywhere a more hopeful tone seems to prevail, even though the Chinese have not yet landed, and a hopeful tone, too, emanates from Johannesburg.” The United States is thirty-two times as big as Great Britain and Ireland, Australia twenty-six times# 4: j