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Otago Witness, Issue 3014, 20 December 1911, Page 81

A commencement has been made with the boring operations at Hannier Springs with a view to testing for the supply of hot mineral water located by the Rev. H» Mason, water diviner. An experienced wellsinker has the work in hand, and his con■tract is to sink a 6in pipe to a depth of 100 ft. A number of immigrants firom the Home Land arrived in Timaru on the 12th, having come out in the Tongariro. One of these," who oame from Ireland, expressed the hope, in conversation with a Herald reporter, that conditions here would be better than they were in Ireland for the working man. He had had to walk three miles to work every morning, the same distance home at night, and for his days labour he received Is 4d. The destination, of nine of the immigrants was Timaru.