A COUNTY EATEPAYER IN NORMANBY TOWNSHIP.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume L, Issue 8918, 6 November 1905, Page 8

A COUNTY EATEPAYER IN NORMANBY TOWNSHIP.

[It seems to us that there is a grievance which, if not remediable on this 1 occasion, should be attended to at future elections. There may be a question as to whether, where town districts itm their own affairs, the town electors should also have a voice. in county elections, but while the law gives them that right they, should be given the usual facilities for exercising ifc. — Ed:]

Messrs R. Dingle, B. Dive and J. J. Campbell, directors of the Egmont Box Sompany, havto just pettqrnled from a week's visit to the Taihape district in search of timber for the future requirements of the company. Mr Dingle'informs «s that there is every prospect of an agreement being entered into for the «upply of two million feet per annum of white pine for the next fourteen; or fifteen years, from the Manawatu district. Tke company is also trying to secure the freehold of standing white pine bush sufficient to supply timber for ten or fifteen years. If this is satisfactorily arranged, aa. there is every reason to hope it will be, j there will be an assured timber supply for the "next twenty-five or thirty years. We are given to understand that nearly all the companies round the mountain, from Kakaramea northwards, have become shareholders of the Box Company. — StratfoM Post.