News Of The Day

Northern Advocate, 12 February 1940, Page 4

News Of The Day

West Coast Prospects. The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. W. Lee Martin) and the DirectorGeneral of Agriculture (Mr. A. H. Cockayne) were given an official reception on Saturday evening when they arrived ,at Westport en route to Greymouth. Mr. Lee Martin predicted a great future for Buffer when the land clearing and development schemes were more fully advanced and greater attention was given to the application of lime and super to the grasslands.

Car Badly Damaged Shortly before 6 p.m. on Saturday, a motor-car, driven by Mr W. S. Piper, of Whangarei, capsized on the Wha-ngarci-Kamo highway near the borough boundary. The car was badly damaged, but the driver escaped injury. Annual Celebrations For 24 years Mrs Matekino Hauraki has been chairwoman of the Waitangi Maori Women's Committee, which is largely responsible for the care and custody of tre Maori Meeting House at Ti Point. At a meeting of the committee to bo held there in March, a proposal that February 6 should beset aside annually by the Ngapuhis for treaty celebrations at Waitangi will be discussed. * * » * 45 m.p.li. Through Ilikurangi “A speed of 45 miles through a built-up area is altogether excessive, said Mr Raymond Forner, S.M., at the Police Court today, when lining James Oswald Kehoe, a motor cyclist, £2 and costs for travelling too fast through Hikurangi. For riding his cycle with insufficient lights, Kehoe, who said he had been unaware of a mechanical fault, developing, was fined £1 and costs. :t: S* * it Interesting Trophies A trio of interesting trophies is at present on display in the Southland Reception Room in the - Dominion Court at the Centennial Exhibition. One of them is the Ranfurly Shield, probably the best-known trophy in New Zealand, but seen by relatively few people. The second is the Bledisloe Cup, and the third is the South Island Challenge Shield for lamb. These three trophies are all held at the moment by Southland.

Requests to Minister The Minister for Lands (Mr Langstone) when visiting Kaitaia was waited upon by the chairman of the Town Board (Mr Lloyd Peace) and the Town Clerk (Mr H. Atkins). The Minister was asksd if he would hasten to a conclusion the arrangements for replacing Bell’s bridge. The precarious state of the bridge, providing the only access to Sunray Park, was also brought before him. Mr Peace asked that the Town Board be given some assistance in opening up a new acces: from Church Road. A third request was that the approaches to Church Road bridge, endangered by the erosion of the riverbanks, receive attention. The Minister undertook to do all he possibly could to comply with the requests made.:

For Museum Constructed out of a stout tea-tree stick, one of the paddles used in the smaller. Ngapuhi canoe at Waitangi, L to be offered by Mr Lou Davis, of Whakapara, for inclusion in the Maori collection at the Whan gar el Municipal Museum. Nearly five feet in length), the paddle will be a memorial of a great effort by a section of the Ngapuhi people, under Renata Kauerc. Half the canoe and its embellishments are to be deposited in the National Museum, Wellington, while Sir Apirana Ngata is seeking permission to have the remaining half erected next to the Massey Memorial at Point Halswell as a monument to Mr Tau Henare

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