Minor Power Trouble.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 November 1938, Page 4

Minor Power Trouble.

Minor trouble to one or two sections of the Wairarapa Power Board's reticulation system was caused last night by the wind. Power failed in the South Road area for about 20 minutes from 8 o’clock and there was also some interruption at Longbush. In the case of the. South Road trouble, a falling piece of branch was probably responsible. Busy Tourist Season. Bookings at the Christchurch office of the Government Tourist Bureau indicate that this season will be an exceptionally busy one. The Milford track has already attracted a large number of prospective visitors, and parties from the North Island are being arranged. The Picton Sounds, Queenstown and other South Island tourist resorts are very heavily booked for the Christmas season, and in some cases it appears that no further accommodation will he available till January 21, according to the manager of the office, Mr A. G. Christie. Service cars on the Otira Gorge road, which began operations on November 1, a month earlier than last year, have carried several parties over the gorge already, and quite a number of bookings have been made for trips to the West Coast. Erosion Seen from the Air. “I have never seen erosion so well defined as I did during the air journey between Wellington and New Plymouth this week,” stated Professor C. J. F. Skottsberg, Director of Botanical Gardens at Gothenburg, Sweden, in an interview in Auckland. He commended to the notice of the Government a suggestion that many tracts which were clearly bad should be mapped from the air so that appropriate steps could be taken to reafforest the areas. As it was the professor’s first trip by air in the North Island, he said he found it difficult to define the sectors concerned, but they were quite obvious to the naked eye. In several places, he said, he observed a series of eroded aieas comparatively close together, and it would not be long before they were joined. Professor Skottsberg said he noticed similar manifestations in different parts of the South 'lsland, but the degree of erosion did not appear to be as bad as that in the North Island.