GALE IN WELLINGTON.

Otago Witness, Issue 3885, 28 August 1928, Page 38

GALE IN WELLINGTON.

CONTINUOUS HEAVY RAIN. FURTHER DAMAGE TO RAILWAY LINE. WELLINGTON, August 24. Another stiff southerly gale succeeding a hard blow from the north set in this morning without any cessation of the very heavy rain which has already added to the list of last week’s slips. As the result of the heavy rain through the night and throughout to-day the low lying parts of the Hutt and Petone were showing,patches of flood waters here and there, and at low water the river w’as showing four feet above its normal level. These conditions are making it very hard for the Railway Department’s gangs working on the repair of the railway lines between Ngahauranga and Petone, and in some instances the breakers were invading the breaches in the wall and nullifying the efforts of the workers to erect those b'- o f s f one on which the safety of the lines depend

“Fate cannot harm me; I have dined to-day,” might well be the watchword of Auckland stonemasons and monumental workers, if expressions of opinion as to the working capacity of men on full stomachs, made during the hearing of their dispute with the employers in conciliation recently, can he accepted as a criterion (remarks the Star). It was contended by the union advocates that it was in the interests of the employers to have their men properly fed. One representative said his strongest working hour of the day was that immediately following lunch. “ I guarantee I will do more work in that hour than during any other in the day,” he added. “As a hungry man I am a poor man.” supplemented another “I lose all spirit.”