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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9305, 22 March 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL. ► «. — — 1 The Treasurer of the Fantbam Memorial Fund acknowledges receipt of a cheque for > £1 Is trom Mrs Kuini Wi Thoirpson, of ■ Normanby. At a statutory meeting of the Onslow r (Wellington) Borough Council, held to oonaider the qpending of some thousands for ! draiinago purposes, there were present the ( Mayor, two councillors, two ratepayers, , two ofPcial3, and twe repeaters. On a poll taken in regard to spending £12,000 by , the Miramar Borough Ouncal, thirty- two .votes were recorded These ore two more ' examples of the deplorable' public apathy in municipal ailajixs. , ' Tho heavy rains in the eariy part of the 1 week were" responsible for the sweeping i aAvay of Mr J. Gibsons boatshed and. boats , at Patea. They are situated on the 1 riyei ; bank behind his residence, and at. %>w iade ! the piles, about fix or seven feet hagfa, are out of the water. .It is.wrraiysed that heavy timber got under the shed and lifted 1 it off the piks. The. shed itaeK sank a«d 1 has not been -recovered, but thg.bqate have all been got. One of them : \raa carriec out to sea and found thrown. vg v - on the i beach some distance along 1 the coast.- > Gibsons Limited will be open all daj , Saturday until 9 p.m. A gteat variety oi new goods displayed — Advt.