WELLINGTON NEWS.
[Per Press Association.! WELLINGTON, Dec. 30. Messrs J. A. Lowe (Chief Engineer of Working Railways) and T. F. Rotherham (Locomotive Superintendent) have gone to Tutaekara to conduct the Departmental inquiry into the circumstances under which a brake van became derailed on the day of the opening of the railway to Woodville. The Land Board to-day approved of the subdivision of an estate* of 300 acres purchased by the Government under the Land for Settlements Act, for the purpose of establishing workmen's homes at Johnsonville. It was stated that there had been many inquiries for land, and that as the prices would be about £9 to .£IOO per acre, a workman would find it cheaper to purchase a house and land in the estate than to rent a house in Wellington. Some fifty men were now working on the estate. The Ranger's reports upon the village settlements in the Makuri Block were of a most encouraging nature. Dr Archer Hosking, while surgically examining an amputated limb after a recent operation at Masterton Hospital, slightly scratched his hand with the dissecting knife. Yesterday blood-poisoning ! symptoms became so serious that he decided to go to Wellington Hospital for special serum treatment, the remedy not being available in Masfcerton.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6065, 31 December 1897, Page 1
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207WELLINGTON NEWS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 6065, 31 December 1897, Page 1
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