WORKMEN ON SKIS
TELEGRAPH REPAIR WORK IN THE SOUTH. PKEBS ASSOCIATION.
CHRISTCHURCH, August 2. Tho linesmen who were despatched from Christchurch to mend the broken telegraph wires which trail over Whale’s Back found that, to carry out their difficult work successfully, equipment of quite an Arctic kind was necessary.
The snow in some places is at least eight feet deep, and to attempt to cross it shod in ordinary footwear would be perilous. Therefore the department sent up a number of skis, and on these gangs are repairing the breaks, their instructions being to first of all connect up one single wire between Waiau and Kaikoura. That done, they have now before them the more difficult task of raising and mending the rest of the wires, as some of these are bujjjed under four feet of snow. The men will hardly get back to town for a week or two.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8190, 3 August 1912, Page 1
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150WORKMEN ON SKIS New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8190, 3 August 1912, Page 1
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