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Northern Advocate, 18 June 1925, Page 8

I< Sawmills "will be active in the Ashburton County for the next few years (says the "Guardian"). The council : has sold blocks of pinus insignis to | three sawmilling companies, which will i j employ <•. large number of men. There J |is a great demand for this class of i wood for timber and firewood, and the j council has sold a small block of stand- j ing pines in a favourable locality at a j royalty of 5s a cord. j Already it is found that more room j * must b-s provided at the big exhi- j J bition Csays the Dun*'din. "Star"), 1 The infant - has outgrown its cradle, j Anscombe and Ass ; ciates are instructed j to prepare plans for another building ' 160 ft. x loOft., to house the Education Court. The site is not fnally picked. Sir Charles Ferguson is not a formal saunterer through institutions th.at lie visit officially (states the Dunedin "Star"). Mr Sidey, M.P., said at a recent Plunket ceremony in Dunedin: "So keen was His Excellency to see everything at the Otago University, that if I had not- bteen at his elbow to shove, him along he would have lost his lunch. j