The increase in the number of overhead wires in Wellington is not being lost sight of by the Government, which recognises that their multiplication is both unsightly and dangerous. Steps are now being taken to divert some of the wires from the front of the Departmental Building on Lambton Quay. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the steamer .Roliesby Broad, of about 2300 tons deadweight, constructed this year by the Grangemouth and Greenock Dockyard Company, at Grangemouth, to the order of London owners, has been purchased by the Union Steamship Company for about £26,000, and will be renamed the Kamona. The vessel’s dimensions are 245 ft by 36ft by 16ft; engines, ISin, 30in, and 48in by 33in, by Mr W. V. V. Lidgerwood, Glasgow; boiler, loft 9in by lift, with 1801 b pressure, built by Messrs Barclay, Curie, and Co., to pass German requirements,
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 85, 18 April 1901, Page 4
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