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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19683, 28 December 1933, Page 6

•The spectacle of two parent minahs attacking a cat that had stolen one of their young, interested passers-by on Somme Parade, Wanganui. The cat i had the young bird in its mouth, and ! the parent birds swooped and fluttered at the marauder so quickly and thoroughly that he was compelled to drop his feathered prize, which made good its escape, at least for the time being. For several weeks underground surveys of the site for the new railway station at Wellington have Bfeen carried out by driving small bores, in the same way that small artesian bores are put down, to ascertain the nature of the ground below the old reclam- ; ation filling and the depth to which : the foundation piles will have to Be I driven to reach solid bottom. Naturally . on the old shore line and shallow sea ’ bottom there are remarkable vari- i ations In the depth of rock below the j surface of the fill, where one time rocks Jutted to the surface or where j were deep holes, but the survey, by bores at short regular spaclngs, has j given a detailed knowledge of what the old natural bottom used to be. j and authority has been given for the ; ordering of steel for the first four I hundred piles, about one-quarter of the lot.