DOMINION NEWS.
A LUCKY ESCAPE (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIA TTON.) • GISBORNE, Feb. 5. A motor-ear carrying Judges Jones and Carr and the Native Appellate Court staff capsized on the East-Coast road through the collapse of the road. The passengers wore pinned under a broken hood, hut miraculously escaped iniury. NATIVE BLOCK PURCHASHED HASTINGS, Feb. 5. A transaction involving the . .acquisition of a block at Pukititiri of 509 acres, 400 of which are covered ■with valuable milling timber, was concluded between the native owners and the Government at a meeting .of . the owners yesterday afternoon after lengthy negotiations, which have been hanging fire for a long time. The owners have accepted the Government’s offer of £35 per acre, amounting to £17,815. The property has been acquired by the Government on behalf ojf the State Forestry Department.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 5 February 1926, Page 5
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135DOMINION NEWS. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 5 February 1926, Page 5
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