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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 20 June 1924, Page 8

Contrary to expectations (states the '‘Westport News”), Greymouth Harbour Board’s revenue, ‘or the eig.it months .since the Otira tunnel vrns opened, is a record, being £4S,O--0, as compared with between £-I‘l,ooo to £46,000 for the corresponding period in the preceding year. “We have been kept on our farms bv promises,” said a soldier settler at a conference of dairy 1 aimers in Carterton. He said that they had produced up to the hilt, and yet could not make the farms pay. Had it not been for the promise of a revaluation none of them would be on the land now. The Gisborne Tramways Board's latest innovation, an electric car on which the driver collects the fares, was given a trial run recently. It is fitted with special safety devices, which prelude boarding or leaving the tram while it is in motion. Tho tram cannot he started until these safety gates aio closed. Should an accident happen to the driver the car would automatically bo brought to a standstill, the driving lever having to bo pressed by the fool to ma ltti (ontact and start the err. The release of this pressure nniomufically cuts off the power and applies Iho brakes.