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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20171, 25 February 1931, Page 15

Coal, timber, 'and other . railway freight transported s through# the . Otjra.,, -tunnel last week from the- West Coast' aggregated 8616. tbnß, as compared, wiw 13,060 tons for the corresponding P«frd last year, and 10,366 tons in J929. •. Yesterday five trucks of-fat lambs anft > one truck of pigs Were , railed .to Christchurch. . 1 The St. John Ambulance 'Association's No. 1 Ambulance' recently has wider.-, gone' a transformation in outward .Bp- ■ pearance. Instead of its former 'rathe? . sombre colouring, the body is now. painted white, with the'words: "St. John • Free Ambulance,'' prominent m' in black. The interior-also-has been repainted, The work has been done by members of the St. bulance Brigade in a highly creditablemanner. > f , Estimated to be" from 600, to 800 ' pounds in weight, a fish of unknown species was landed the Ngaioota Beach, New Plymouth (states "Taranaki Daily Newsj'). Ten feet from nose to' tail and six feet m girth; at its broadest part, it had the mouth, and tail of a shark. It was after a most thrilling fight near Cape Egmont, and it was* not until three: hnd si half hours had elapsed> that J,t pould be drawn to the surface. A lassoo was; drawn, Tonnd .the head and another over its tail, finely harnessed in this way, the fish .drew the heavy 35ft launch for half a mile towards the shore before it could be brought under any sort of control. Owing to its weight, many willing, banaa had considerable difficulty in Jsaunng -it on the beach., It was stul^aliv®., Fashioned .like that of a hnpuka, > ~itsbodv was covered-with a ooaree,f darfc« brown Fkin. A tlack line ran the back from the noseto the tail. The fins were more life© flappera W fins. Th^..head, jnejaaurins froaJi jam to Bft across, was- Hunt