REPAIRING TELEGRAPH LINES.
'AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SECTION. (By Teloeraph.-Presa Association.) Christchurch, August 8. Mr. G. T. Kemp, telegraph engineer, who has just returned from supervising the work of repairing the linos between Waiau and Kaikoura, states that there is still big work beforo the gangs. The Department has decided to build a deviation along a course four and a half miles long, so as to cut out tho present Mason River- course, an extremely dangerous section; it runs along the top of a steep clay cutting. Then iron-bark poles are to be put in to strengthen the iron posts in tho worst places on the route. Following that will corn©' the important work of a pole-to-polo examination, as far as Conway, it being necessary alter heavy storms to examine the wire's on every pole.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1514, 9 August 1912, Page 4
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134REPAIRING TELEGRAPH LINES. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1514, 9 August 1912, Page 4
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