LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1920, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

All cable messages for the West Indies and British Giuana, except those routed “via Eastern” for Jamaica, have been suspended. The residents of Kanieri intend lioldng a grand concert and ball on Boxing night, in aid of the Hospital Fund. On the next evening a plain and fancy dress ball for children will be held. Details of the repair work on the Midland railway line, which was blocked for about three hours on Thursday owing to a landslide, have been supplied to Mr P. R .Climie, organiser of the Progress League, by Mr IV. K. M’ Alpine, who was a passenger on the train held up, states that tho repair work was very smartly effected, although the shifting of part of u.e line was necessitated. “It was a very bad slip,” writes Mr M’Alpine, “the whole side of the track having subsided for about half a chain or more, leaving the line hanging in the air. Luckily there was at this point an open space about four or live, chains in length, sun] Mr M’Credie (district engineer), whe arrived on the repair train, decided tc move the line eight feet from the slip To do this, the ground had to be levelled and filled up, and then the line moved over in a gradual curve, and Mi M’Alpine states that every man put hii back into it, the work being complctec in a very short space of time.