DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 18 June 1928, Page 11

DOMINION NEWS.

HEAVY RAIN IN CANTERBURY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, June IS. Light nain fell over Canterbury on Saturday, increasing in volume by the evening. Yesterday there was a continuous downpour, that became torrential in the afternoon, and still shows no signs of clearing. From 9.30 a.m. yesterday to 9.30 o’clock this morning 1.7 S inches fell. Tlhe total rainfall since Friday is over three inches. MItDURA’S CREW. UNIONISTS BEING ENGAGED. R&oeived 10.35 a.m. to-day. BRISBANE, June.lß. The volunteer crew of the Mil dura was paid off and /unionists are being engaged. The wharf labourers are now prepared to unload her. TUBERCULOSIS COMMISSION. WAIPUKURAU, June 18. Members of the Tuberculosis Commission who visited Pukeora Sanatorium during the week-end, hearing the evidence of the medical superintendent and seeing every patient left last evening for Palmerston North, en route to Auckland. WHALE ASHORE AT THAMES. THAMES. Juno 18. A whale, measuring 74 feet in length and 14 feet in height came nip the Firth of the Thames yesterday was stranded on a shell bank in the Waih’ou River near Thames. It was later hauled up on the beach, where it attracted a. lot of attention.