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HAWKE'S BAY. A poll was held on the 23rd in the Napier Barbour rating district on the Harbour Board's proposal to borrow £300,000 for the completion of the . breakwater harbour. The voting was as follows : —For, 1936 votes; against, 1486., As a threefifths majority was required, the proposal was thus lost by 107 votes. WELLINGTON. * Dr Sydney H. Hay, who took his degree at Otago University, has been appointed house surgeon and assistant medical officer at Rotorua. Sanatorium. Albert G. Holland, registrar of the Native Land. Court, Auckland, has been appointed judge of the. Native Land Court. , The Government intends to appoint a
Royal Commission to inquire into the Ohinemuri River silting question, compensation claims having been made by the land ow.ners for damage arising from the use of the riyer as a sludge channel.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2924, 30 March 1910, Page 54
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