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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21329, 23 November 1934, Page 18

One hundred wooden power pulci wore recently shipped from Australia to Auckland to (lie order of the Waifemata Electric Power Board, but on inspection it was found that only six poles in the whole shipment were suitable for use. The majority were sappy and undersized, and apparently had been grown in swampy country. Members of the board at a meeting this week expressed strong dissatisfaction, and the manager remarked that the decision to give the order for the poles to a new firm had proved a very unsatisfactory experience. Fortunately, the board had good stocks of poles in hand, so that, no great inconvenience had been caused. A letter from the firm responsible for the shipment mentioned that all the poles had been passed by the Forestry Department, and that had the firm not relied upon the department and known in time they could have slopped the shipment, but that the poles had been already alongside the ship before any doubts had been raised. The letter was received. Memories of the old military settlement of Howick, near Auckland, were revived by the discovery last week of an 1843 half-farthing in Abercrombic street, which is close to the public domain, formerly the parade ground of the Old Fencibles. The coin, which was in a fair state of preservation, was found by a workman 12 inches below the surface of the road, which has not been metalled or reconstructed since it was made by the passengers from the Sir Robert Sale, Sir George Seymour, and the Minerva in 1847.