Fifty Years Ago

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 14 June 1935, Page 9

Fifty Years Ago

EXTRACTS FROM “HAWERA STAR” JUNE 14, ISS3. The "New Zealand Herald” has set up a Hoe web printing machine which turns off nearly a thousand copies of an eight-page paper in five minutes. 5£ # H* #

Sir William Fox is not coming back to New Zealand on account of the delicate state of Lady Fox’s health, and therefore Westoe has been sold. The purchasers are .Messrs A. Dalzicll, j, Hammond and F. Hammond and the price £li 10s per acre. :{; T- V ’f l

Fred Palmer, Tawhiti Wool Works, advertises that lie is prepared to scour and classify wool for the English market, and that lie is a cash purchaser of wool and skins. *****

A Parliamentary correspondent writes: “Sir Julius Vogel drove dopvn to the House on Thursday looking in very good health. I hear bets arc already made that /the Ministry will not pull through this session. They have a very bitter opponent in Mr Wakefield.” We should think so! Mr Wakefield has been a bitter opponent of every Government for the last eight years, except of the one which lasted only a day or two and included him in its ranks. *J: ♦ *s®

The "Claimant,” alias Sir R. C. D. Tichborne, now on ticket of-leave, shot a match at 15 pigeons with Young Nimrod, the crack "boy champion.” The conditions were 24 yards rise, at 13 pigeons each for £2 o a-side. Doth shot well, but the "much-injured baronet” came off second best, as he was defeated by one bird, the scores being 12 and 11 respectively. "Sir Roger’s” temporary retirement does not seem to have decreased his skill with the double barrel, * * * * *

An advertisement states that the Patea Harbour Board intends to ask leave to introduce a Bill during the coming session of Parliament to reconstitute the Harbour Board for the Port of Patea, and to grant extended powers of river control to the board.

Rewi, who was accompanying Te Wetere from the Waikato, on reaching Mokau, had to return home, being too ill to proceed. Rewi was coming to Waitara to dig up the mere buried at the foot of the main support of the house built to commemorate the Waitara meeting in 1878, as Te Wetere wishes to remove the house to Mokau. According to Maori ideas, the mere can only be removed by the original depositor or those closely connected with him without danger to life, so great is the tapu. The "Twelve Apostles” who accompany Te Wetere have the authority to act for Rewi.