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Northern Advocate, 3 June 1920, Page 5

A series of photographs in connection with the Mokau alleged murder case were secured by Dr. Good, who .visited the locality with the coroner and police party, and the prints may ,form part of the evidence at the trial.

The fact faces Wanganui that an obdurate and soulless Railway Department controls th e whavf, goods shed and land and that as long as the present wharf is under its control the board will find itself 'up against it , " —Wanganui Chronicle.

A rumour is cuirent in Wellington that Parliament wiU open on Juno 17. This is a week earlier than at first reported, the reason alleged being that it is desired to afford Lord Liverpool the opportunity of perform ing the opening ceremony befor c he leaves for England.

At the present time there are amongst the number of visitors in the town who are in search of land, one family from Canada, and another from Tasmania, in addition to at least three soldier settlers from the South. In conversation with some of these land-seekers, an '.Advocate" representative gleaned the information that two of the parties had come to the North directly as an outcome of articles and advertisements published in the "Advocate," and further that the land agents' notices had been carefully scrutinised every day by them during their stay in the town. One so far, has completed purchase of a property in the district,

Yesterday tea-tree fascining work was done on a portion of the/ road between the outskirts of Hikurangi township and the Wai'o rocks, but that length of the Main North road continues as the chief obstacle to motor-car drivers between Whangarei and the northern boundary of the county. Opposite the rocks money is being spent in breaking down a length of two or three hundred yards of fairly firm-metalled road to a lower level to obtain a mor e even grade. In view pf the generally slushy conditions on either side, travellers question why the above work should take precedence t to repair work over the whole permanentlygraded length, where it is contended more value would have been obtained for the money spent.

'Speaking of his ten months' experience on Gallipoli after the armistice, as a member of the Graves Registration Committee, Mr V. BiggWither, who left Whangarei to-day, stated that "Jacko" admitted having a great regard for the fighting quality of the 4nzac9, and the Turkish farmers tqld their former foes that the Turks could not be worked up to launch an attack on our line 9. The views obtained from the Turkish positions bore out the oft-repeated assertions that "Jacko" had a clear view of every part of the British positions, with the exception of the hospital site under Walker's Ridge. The Turks had many a gleeful grin a3 they watched their shrapnel sending crowds of men diving for the only safety available—to scatter over as, wide an area as possible, instead of allowing good targets in crowds. From No. 2 Outpost to Suvla Bay and in to what was Anafarta Biyuk ((Little), the Turkish peasants have ploughed, and tilted their holdings again but on Rhododendron and other famous spurs, the maze of scrub-cov-ered trenches constitutes effective obstructions to the wanderings of the queer4oolcing Eastern sheep with which the Anzacs were so well acquainted.