BOMBAY.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 50, 29 June 1915, Page 3

BOMBAY.

The reconstruction of telegraph poles along the main rrad from Drury to Mercer is being pushed along satisfactorily by a gang cf 74 men in charge of Mr T. Carrk-k. Few people really understand the extensive operations in courie of pwgrees. Up to date seven miles of the routs have been compl-.ttd, and there still remians to be doie nine and a-halt miles, which it is estimated will take ten months to complete The work was staited on the 7th June, 1914, by six men in charge of Mr W. H. Gibbs, engineer to the Post and Telegraph Department, who has sicca resigned and at present is in camp at Trentham Mr Carriik took Mr Gibbs' plate and has r. nvained in charge since. Wfcen the original gang arrived as far as Rama Rama

on the 6th of March of this year, their number was increased to 15, * with the idea of pushing ahead fas'er The new'poles used to replace the ■ and the double 241 t-401b iron rails are of i'on bark naturally rounded. Messrs W, E. Vivian and Mason sub-engineer?, are attached to the cang t> gain experience The men are campfd in tants, two in each, in Mr G. Proud'? padlock. The Post and Telegraph Department have supplied the men with everything that makes the interior of the tents comfortable. Wooden floors are provided in each case, and the men state that aUuough the weather has been disagreeable of late life in the tents is not to be despised. A male cook is in charge of a large galley, where the appetites of the men are appeased with good fare