NEW ZEALAND.
(PRESS ASSOCIATION TKLEGRAM9.) AUCKLAND, May 19. The provisional committee to arrange for the North Shore native regatta, to be held at the time of the industrial exhibition, have decided as a leading item a race for Maori war canoes, in canoes fitted up in imitation of Wliakatawa?. It has been decided to offer £100 for the first prize, £50 for the second, and £25 for the third. Arrangements will be made to eet a large number of Waikato and East Coast natives in town in oidei- to make up the crews of the canoes. NAPIER, May 19. The proposal of the joint committee representing the different loc-il bodies to establish public abattoirs at Tomoana, was rejected by the Borough Council, and a committee has been set up to collect data regarding a proposal to build abattoirs for the town only, on the outskirts of the borough.
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 10041, 20 May 1898, Page 6
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