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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 15 April 1908, Page 5

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(From s Otir Owia Gorrespondett^) ,- Splendid nominations' have been - received for ,the loeaj spcvrt8 Kl to be hey on Easter Motiday Jv amiong ( vrhioh ,ajse some of the fastest -men -in. tie > Dominion. Some of the ootafflfttions tave come from as. far south as JDaabevirke. and from, Hamilton on the north. The nominations fox trotting .have - been extended till Thursday, although T believe quite a number are already to hand,, and include some very fine horses. Given a fine day the sports yrill be one of the gatherings oi the Dorainiojn. % * -'„,(■ Mr W. Dew has sold his larih piT'the Oeo .road to ah Eltham Buyer. r = ' ' Mr R. Hooper has hought, Mr Wilcox> farm on the Main South road, .Otalceho. The price, I understaaid, was £30 per acre. , ■ , , ; ,- ' \ ,-.- j The local Soccer team has not yet settied down to football. The captain,, Mr Penny, has quite a job to get his mjesn together. . ' „ Whilst harrowing on his fa,rm last, week Mr Giraud unearthed a. .jMaori stone axe in perfect order, being quite smooth and. sharper than the average firewood , axe of to-day, althoogh probably fifty years have .elapsed .since it was used by the natives. T V.Q.