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“The question of revaluing the Pohangina County is being looked into with a view to getting the work carried out, if possible, next year, ’wrote the Valuer-General to the Pohangma County Council yesterday. A Press Association message from Dunedin says that two chainmen working with a survey party which was sent to the Whare Plat district from the city engineer’s department came in contact, through a steel band being used by them at the time, with an electric cable. Tire men, Robert Duncan and Herbert Watson, are suffering from shock and burns. Both are married and reside in Dunedin. A Manawatu cricket eleven was to have journeyed to Levin yesterday to play their annual match with Horowlienua, but the inability of five members to make the trip necessitated the fixture being abandoned owing to replacements not being available, for representative purposes Horowhenua is included in the Manawatu area and during the period Manawatu held the liawke Cup one southerner in Baumber found,'inclusion in the cup team. . €' •• "• The nay in which the unemployed move from place to place in Canada was described at a meeting of the Auckland Rotary Club by Archbishop Averill, who recounted; various incidents of his recent ,trip ; -abroad. “One thing that struck me iff panada when I saw a number of transcontinental trains was the sight ofcia dozen or more men riding oil the top,” he said. “I asked what they were jawing there, and was told that' they {were out-of-work men travellings over the country. I asked then why the# wfere‘. not stopped, and the answer wap, ‘|They are more numerous and powoSfnl'than the train crews, and theji to see Canada that way.’ ” Overweight! Reduce to?, normal without dieting or strenuous exercise by taking Youth-O-Form Capsules; 6a 6d.— Leary’s Pharmacies, Ltd.-,*-Advt. I

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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 10, 11 December 1930, Page 6

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