Auckland News.
TREE PLANTING BY PRISONERS.
DROWN IN Or FATALITIES
[By Telegraph—Press Association.]
Auckland, last night. At a meeting of the Auckland builders and contractors union of employere it was resolved to send the President, Mr J. J. Holland, to represent them at a meeting of the builders unions in Christchurch at the end of the month. Mr Holland leaves on Colonel Hume this afternoon left for Wellington. • . , Arrangements are now well in progress for transferring prisoners to Waiotahu Valley to make a start at tree planting. The body of a man, name unknown, was found floating in the harbor this morning. It had evidently been in the water for about a week. 0 A boy throe years old, a son of tho Rev. U C. Harrison, of the local Helping Hand Mission, was accidentally drowned in tho liver at Warkworth. A fire occurred in McKee’s grocery shop at Te Aroha, and completely gutted the premidls. The insurances were in the United for £2OO on the stock.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 17, 22 January 1901, Page 3
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