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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 18, 21 January 1916, Page 4

The tenth shipment from Sew Ply-. mouth of this season's butter and cheese will be made next week, when the "... Corinna will take 12.500 boxes of .butter and 0000 crates of cheese for transhipment to the Ruahine. The butter is ex-' pected to realise £43,750 on the Home market, and the cheese £30,000, making the shipment o_ a total approximate value of £73,750. The .produce from Patea to he taken by the Ruahine will consist of 12,0.00 crates of cheese, .-valued at ' £60,000. . ;'• ' . In connection with excavations which are being carried out for drainage work ;at the east end of Sumner, C_ristchurcb, : tin old sea bed or beach has been struck. at a depth of 13ft. The distance from high-water mark is about 15 chains, and . this apparently. goes to show that at one time the whole of the Sumner Flat . was under water. During the course of the excavations, layers of driftwood, pipi beds, and laTge and small water- ..." worn stones have been uncovered. A striking feature of the pipi shells is that they are much larger than the ordinary shells found on the beach and" '&' ? W > estuary.