LATE LOCALS.
The brilliancy prize at the Chess Congress was awarded to James, Wellington, Jones (Masterton) being second, Jordan (Napier) third and fourth; and Grierson (Auckland) fifth. —Press Association.
A Napier Press Association message states that the Mhnbwai, from Glisborne, arrived too late to.connect with the south-bound exprggp, and a protest was presented to the company, signed by about fifty passengers, against such delays.
Work on the Ohakune-Rateihi branch line, which was authorised recently, is to he put in hand at once, and the first sorj will probably he turned on Saturday next by the Minister of Public Works. The line, we understand, is about seven miles in length, and is needed especially for file timber traffic, an enormous lot of milling going on in the Rateihi district, and the road between that point and the main line being particularly bad.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 40, 12 February 1912, Page 6
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