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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 76, 31 March 1913, Page 7

A rather 'touching incident thn-f. ocenrred at the Waiapu sheep-dop; trials, at Tokoinaru, Poverty eßay, proved that a kmdly heaari ofien ibeaW; beneath the shepb«rd*e plaid. A shepherd who, for years pacat, has been a roguiar and enceosaful -a& tho triile, hiu3 the .iniefortjine to be itairen ill a short. Umt , •ibefore the triaie. and 'had to the Gieborne hospital. Though he made a good -recovery, he -was late in getting i back -foci' the trials, and oaly arri\-ed in time to compete in Class 11L, the hunt- ! sway, which he succeeded in winning with" hre eJ«>veT dr>g T Don. Inetead erf re- i joicia<r that a. Trv<a4 had been j kept -crai of the -way. T.he rrCbe-r competi- • tors ax "the trials sympathised with ' their comrade's bad hick. They put their •heade w'rt-h the result that at t3re nieptrng , titter tr-iaie they raade ■hkn 3 nice T'rftle prese.Trta.t.u>n of six sovereigns as a imtrk of their sympathy in hie m>t being airle to take full psrt in•fche-'fcria.te. Wl>en. .the great Maori warrior Te. Raii-pas-aiia. came to the West Coast of the North lehLtid somewhere aiiou.t a luin<ked y-ears-agrj witli his invincible artny of Maoris, the party camped on the sibeach ai Hokio, near -where Levm n.o-w" sttands, and grew a crtop of poiaioes ami iaroe inside the eaowflul-Ls. This ptace is now C4jraplei.cJy cowsrwl wiih drifting tiand: also soTTie l-aices TwJ»Kh were tl»er« Oiled up -and teve rfisa-ppeared. If fnis- drifting- sand ie not checked none of t-he fAd landmarks of this coast will be reeog-nJsaWe rood. Attbnuffh the cki- | zene of Levin have been advocating thnt some dfiftnitp sieps filuiuld bo taken to a-bato this trourble, u-otiiing luifi so far been don-p. in this direction. However, tlie ■Prime Minister .has promised lhat fhe matter -vriLl be seen into, and something done to check the incoming 6and.