The Alps in Europe are. a remarkable weather divide, and as they are pierced with ■the St. Gothard Tunnel, passengers frequently experience great changes. Leaving the southern side in brilliant sunshine, under a cloudless sky, in about 13 minutes they frequently emerge on the north, side in a thick fog, and ono hardly realises, that the' tunnol is endbd. Seeing tho reports v of heavy rainfalls on the West Coast and the light falls in Canterbury, ono may look forward to similar experiences when passing through tho Otira Tunnel when it will le completed,-
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 58, 2 December 1907, Page 10
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