THE TUNNELLING CORPS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 100, 21 January 1918, Page 4

THE TUNNELLING CORPS

VISITED BY GENERAL GODLEY. In a letter to the Minister of Defence, General Godley makes tho following reference to the Tunnelling Corps: "I havo lately been on a visit to the New Zealand Tunnelling Coraj,anv n fc , the New Zealand Veterinary Hospital at Calais, the NewZealand Railways Operating Company, and the New Zealand Stationary Hospital. I found them all working well, and was much interested in the work the tunnellers did at the time of the big offensive at . I did not realise before, and I am sure you have not realised in Now Zealand, what an immense amount of work they did, and how much they contributed k> the success of the operations there. "I have told A 7 ickerman to write a.n account of it in a form in which H could easily be published, and I will send it to you. It was very interesting to walk in their tunnels and caves underneath the old town of > and to find them labelled and known, as tho caves were, by the names of the principal towns in New Zealand, linked up by passages named Princes Street, Riccarton Avenue, Lambton Quay, Queen Street, and so on. "t had a very good report of the work of the Veterinary Hosnital also from the Chief Veterinary Officer, and from what I could see it appeared that the work of the hospital was very good. The corps in which tho Railway Company has been working has given ir.e a very ccod report of it, and the Stationary Hospital, which ;« now in a new location, has cot fettled again, and is once more doing flood work. Everything is going well with tho division at present."