AXEMEN'S CARNIVAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 22 December 1913, Page 5

AXEMEN'S CARNIVAL.

The white pine blocks to be iis«i: at the ; Axemen's CarnijaV^'numbierVioiy^r 300, arid ; have just arrived in. Elt|taiD. Mr Volzke ■ who has had; the contract for securing them, says thit they arW all first-class. timber and : as jzood a lot as ever have been used at Eltham. The committee 'have also secured: foiir 18in. blocks of kaiwaka, the - fastest? tiniber in New Zealand. V Althoiigh never before chopped in Eltham,, tJiey; are making arrangements with-O^etty^ Pech^ Mfley and Shewry to chop these? .blocks with ,a .view^to.'putting; up'lv. world's record.^-This event will take? place; on the second day. v Side-show-' men have, already; put in /an appear-, ance, and there .will/be .ample: amusement in this form, for young and old 1