The Public Works Department has lot a contract for the hew quarters on the southern side of Cook Strait for the tele, phone cable staff. The firm is Messrs Prussia? and Mason, and Iho amount £3OOO l'Cs “There arc many American people who want to conre over here,” said Mr. VV. .7. von Behren, of Palm Beach, Florida, who arrived in Wellington by the Corinthic. “but t find, ns they will, that our geography is all at sea. How do \yeknow of New Zealand? Well, there is quite a, lot in the papers, but I heard of it from the Tloinry ipen you sent over to ns, good men, too. • They could toll us anything wo wanted to know, and they made me want to comejiero,’’
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17009, 16 April 1926, Page 5
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