POSITION OF TELEGRAPHS.
The Telegraph Office reported to-day that there was only one direct outlet I'iom Christchurch to Wellington, and it was probable that this was all that
would be available to-morrow. There are two keys to and from Grey mouth which are assisting in communication with Wellington. Waiau is the most distant point on the Fast Coast route, with which telegraphic communication has been maintained. In view of the reduced nature of the communications urgent telegrams are receiving preference, and commercial telegrams will follow. At the present time it is difficult to say whether the Department will recover the East Coast wires, as owing to the number of washouts and the damage to bridges linesmen are not able to get about the country. They cannot even travel by horseback. A BIG SLIP. A slip on the Cheviot line is reported to be 240 yards long and seven feet deep. It is about a mile and a. half from the Ethel ton station*. The road front Rangiora to Oxford is like a river. For a distance of fourteen or fifteen miles it is covered by a stream of water from an inch to two feet in depth.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17035, 8 May 1923, Page 7
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