T’he “great white iiain" wiiieh b heing oiganised by the New Zealand I're.erence League lo draw attention In rlu* eompiehensiveness ot New >.ea-laiiu-inaue goods, will lie run from one end ol the Dominion to the other, says the "r.veiling lost." It wiil consist ot cither a corOon of motor' trucks or a rai.way train, anil will be painted white. An expert advance agent will precede it, amt make all necessary arrangements. The scheme has been conducted with marked success in Australia. and it i s anticipated that it will be o.|n;iI ly successful in New Zealand. It is also intended to get lactones to adopt a seal signifying that the goods wete made in New Zealand. These seal.-, will he worth a certain miim.er ot points according to the pi ice ol tin l article, and children will he encouraged to collect them by 1 lib offering oi prizes for ;t gitepi number. Another eight-storey building is being commenced in Queen Street on a ’-site, Tiff bv i2.lt, just til) ive the junction of Wyndfiitin Street. <’'Auciilanc, St i i "ft will inrlude ;i block of shops on Lite street fionl. and tr.e remaining 'if:.'tit's wiL consist m office accoinuMidation. In its arcliitectuiai features the i.ctv I Hiding will include ample pio.isions ior light ami ventilation, and wi.l teplace a block of antiquated litr e* shops, that hate recently been p t to a variety of uses. The work of pulling down the building oil-the site was begun last week. According to Lite contract arrangements, the new block should be finished sufficiently for the shops to he occupied by next Christinas. The Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society, for which the new block is being built, has let the contract to the Fletcher Construction Company for £BO,COO.
A man with control of an area larger than Belgium is visiting Brisbane at mm a tapse or tnroe years and a half (imports. the Sydney correspondent ol a New Zealand metropo, Man paper.) He is Mr J. X. M’CawLy, manager oi Vanrook State cattle station, 90 miles north of Normantown, the combined properties of which comprise over 11,vl] o square miles. Mr McCawley told an intervi- wer that, with the decrease in the 'number of aborigines with the advance of civilisation, there had been a big increase in the hordes of'crocodi.es in that portion of the State. Former, y. when the blacks were numerous and had to hunt for food, instead ot getting it at cattle and mission stations, they raided the haunts of the sa..,.iaii „ and collected the eggs, which arc the size of a goose- egg, and of wb.eh there might be <0 in a. nest, and toed them for food In this way, the numbers wore kept down, but nowadays, with .the •dying out of the aborigines, the nests had t.ccdom from attack, and eroioilil s had increased to an alarming manner. To-day lots of crocodiles were to be found even in swamps and marshes, anti cattle and horses were pi eyed on. Age rests lightly upon an old-age pensioner on the northern gum binds, who is at. present 90. Born and broil to a pionociing life, he has been accustomed to the saddle since his boyhood da..s. and, lacking only four years to umplete iiis century, he is still a i morons equestrian Cantering along the back country roads in Rodney and Cl amtitea. counties he earns a small sum over ami above the amount that is regularly paid to him in the foim oi a pension as the officer appointed by the Pension Department to deliver oayments in his area. Last month this old identity visited Auckland 1o take his part in Die loyal celebrations, ami he li\es in anticipation of easily reaching a hundred.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 April 1927, Page 10
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