THE TUNNELLERS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 96, 16 January 1918, Page 11

THE TUNNELLERS

GOOD REPORTS OF THEIR, WORK

In a letter to the Min'stcr of Ita fence,' General Godley makes the following reference to the Tunnelling Corps:—''l have lately been on a •.isit to the New Zealand Tunnelling Company at -, the New Zealand Veterinary Hospital at Calais, the New Zea» laud Railways Operating Company, and the New Zealand Stationary Hospital. I found them all working well, and was much interested in tho \j-orl: the tunnellers did at the time of tho big offensive nt —-. I did not realise before, and I am sure you have not ieaUsed in New Zealand, what an immense amount of work they did, and how much they contributed to the success of the operations there. I havo told Vickerman to write an account of it in a form in which it could easily be published, and I will send it to you. It was very interesting to walk in their tunnels, aiid caves underneath the old town of , and to find them labelled and known, as the caves were, by the names of tho principal towns in Now Zealand, linked up by passages named Princes Street, lUccarton Aveuuo, Lambton Quay, Queen Street, and so on. "I had a very good report of the work of tho Veterinary Hospital also from the Chief Veterinary Officer, and from what I could sea it appeared that tlie work of the hospital was very good. The corps in which tho Railway Company has been working has given we a very good report of it, and the Stationary Hospital, which is now in a new location, has got settled again,- and is once more doing good work. Everything is going well with the division at present."