Gannets at Kidnappers.
The ranger of the Cape Kidnappers bird sanctuary reports that the birds are back at the Cape in large numbers and are at present sitting on their eggs. The young birds will be makig their appearance any time now. The sanctuary will be opened to visitors on Saturday, October 22. Power Line Breaks.
With a flash that sent children playing nearby to shelter and was seen from the hills across the harbour an electric power line snapped in the Ngahauranga Gorge early last night. There was a momentary flicker of lights in Wellington and the Hutt Valley as a change over was made on the panel at the substation to provide an alternative source of supply to that interfered with. The break occurred 200 yards from the Hutt Road, and is believed to have been caused by some object having been thrown over the wires. There was blasting a mile and a half up the gorge about the time of the break, but it is considered more probable that the fault was caused in the immediate vicinity of where the line was short-circuited.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1938, Page 4
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186Gannets at Kidnappers. Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1938, Page 4
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