SAWMILL ACCIDENT.
MAX'S LEG BROKEN. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON', this day. A sawmill hand named John Kennedy Thomson, aged 32, was engagfvj moving logs at Mamaku railway timber yard, yesterday, -when a log rolled over and fell on him, smashing his right leg above the ankle. He was admitted to the Waikato Hospital, where he is making good progress
; Wellington City Council decided some little time ago to make it possble for the leaseholders of its endowment lands at Pahiatua to convert (as a body) to the freehold. The council named the sum of £25,000 as the price of the freehold of these 1590 acres of rich dairying land*, hut so far the leaseholders nave not responded. They considered from £20.000 to £21.000 the full value. Ihe Mayor stated quite dpfinitelv on lHureday that the council was not 'going k to budge from its price.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 213, 8 September 1923, Page 6
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