WELLINGTON NEWS. ■* •
[Per Press Association.! WELLINGTON, Dec. 31. The weather is dull and overcast, but there is no wind, and it threatens to turn to heat. The Manawatu Railway Company has intiilled a ten thousand candle power dynamo to light the station and charge accumulators for lighting the carriages. The plant will light three trains, giving twentyseven sixteen or thirty-six twelve-candle power lamps for nine hours. The light is a great improvement, and enables; the passengers to read comfortably.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6065, 31 December 1897, Page 3
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79WELLINGTON NEWS. ■* • Star (Christchurch), Issue 6065, 31 December 1897, Page 3
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