OTIRA TUNNEL.
FARES AND FREIGHTS. The Railway Department at Christchurch lias received notice irom the Minister of Railways that the pas-en-ger fares through the Otira tunnel will not bo altered from the present rates of 3s fid first class and 2s OiT second-class. It is also reported by the Department that the tunnel will still remain under the control ol the- Public Woiks Department.
MEDIEVAL PARIS. PARIS, Dec. 18. The last vestiges of the Paris of the -Middle Ages are to be demolished. The Municipal Council has voted ,£260,000 for the suppression of the insanitary old houses lining such quaintly named streets as the Rue Geoffrey I'Angevin, Rue dos Etuvers St. Martin. Rue Pierre tiu Lard, and the Rue Prise Miclie. These narrow streets, through which an ordinary lorry or motor-car could not ]kiss. lie close to the Hotel <le Ville. behind the spacious Rue do Kivoli. Three hundred and fortyseven houses, in which 111,053 Parisians dwell, are to disappear. When this lot has been razed. 16 other lots, comprising 4,000 houses, "ill he treated similarly. The total cost is estimated at €12,600.000.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 February 1924, Page 3
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183OTIRA TUNNEL. Hokitika Guardian, 16 February 1924, Page 3
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