“A Trip to the Wainui Watershed” (31 Jan) – Wellington City Councillors visit to Wainuiomata.
The drive through the Hutt, as far as Wainuiomata hill, was devoid of incident, but here was a serious difficulty confronted us. The ‘difficulty’ consisted of Messrs Sinclair’s new locomotive engine, “Pio Pio”, which had been dragged out here with great labor, but was now blocking up the road apparently without any hope of getting it further. We subsequently saw a dozen powerful bullocks have a spell at it, but they gave up in disgust. Consequently, it seems very probable that either the engine will have to be taken over the hill piece-meal, or else nothing less than a convulsion of nature will be able to move it.
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