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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1687, 29 June 1904, Page 16

Mr Leslie H. Reynolds, C.E., inspected the Patea bar last Aveek. He found (says the "Press') that the width of the channel was 120 ft and expressed surprise Avhen told that a week ago it was only 60ft. Mr Reynolds emphatically contradicted the assertion that the bar was in a bad condition, stating that lie had never seen it better. At the tidal gauge there is a boulder embankment AA r liicli he Anil recommand the Board to remove, Avhen funds permit. , Speaking in Dunedin on the Premier s memorandum on child-life preservation, the Rev Curzon Siggers said that lie considered it a very notable and worthy, movement. If the Premier did nothing els for N©av Zealand than that, he would have done very fine work, especially if he could get some action taken to prevent children being sent to various people as the result of advertisements. Every endeavour, said Mr Signers, was made to prevent the Society for the Protection of Women and Children from tracing these children.