WELLINGTON NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8700, 8 January 1907, Page 4

WELLINGTON NEWS.

Per Press Association. Wellington, January 7. The training ship Amoknra, late H.M .8. Sparrow, at present in Wellington harbour, is now ready to undertake the work for which she was acquired by the New Zealand Government. : The vessel has undergone a complete overhaul. The regulations governing admission to the training ships are, at present before His Excellency the Governor, and it is hoped that they will be issued at an early date. It is expected: that the workers’ homes to be erected by the Government in Coromandel-street will be let at rentals of from seven to eight shillings weekly. There is room on the land for eighteen houses. They are to be built in brick. His Excellency, the Governor proceeds to Nelson on Thursday, and, alter visiting various places, in. Nelson, crosses to Christchurch. He will leave Christchurch on the 23rd for the Bluff, where he joins the Tutanekai for a trip around the Southern Islands and to the Ghathams.