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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6900, 4 May 1929, Page 8

Cabinet bas accepted the tender of A. S. Paterson and Co. Ltd. for No. 4 generator for the Arapuni hydroelectric works. The returns from the recent sale of poppies and from donations and wreaths in Auckland have now come to hand, and amount to £1914. In early times the standard measurement, the ell, was the length of the king’s forearm from the elbow to the tip of tko extended forefinger. While investigating the reasons for a sudden stoppage of water at Kensington, the Whangarei Borough workmen discovered an eel, 13 inches in length, which had made its way into the pipe. “1 first slept in the district in 1908, and I have been sleeping in it ever since,” said a candidate for the One Tree Hill Hoad Board at a meeting on Tuesday evening, when apparently wishing to impress the ratepayers with his knowledge of the district (states the New Zealand Herald). “It is time you woke up,” came a voice from the back, amid roars of laughter.

The Marama left Sydney yesterday an 4 p.m. for Auckland and the Maunganui loft at 5 p.m. for Wellington. Sir Harry Lauder announced, definitely from the stage at His Majesty s Theatre, Auckland, last week,, that he would shortly go into the talkies. His explanation was that ho could not reach the same number of people on the ordinary stage, - and as the talkies had come to stay he had decided to be heard and seen in them- “This probably will be the last opportunity of seeing me on the stage, ” ho told his audience. A large and unusual looking fish was watched by many working on the waterfront at Wellington the other afternoon, as it cruised slowly through the water along Jervois Quay Wharf and finally dived under the Queen’s wharf and disappeared. The fish was described by one who saw it as being some seven or eight feet long, and about 3 feet in width. Its head was disproportionately large. That it was a siinli.sh was the general opinion of those who saw it.