During the year ending March 31 over 71.000,000 feet of timber was railed to the southern ports of the North Island by the sawmills alonK the. Main Trunk railway.
Mrs Annio Laurenson, a widow of 51 years of age, died early on Sunday morning as the result of taking poison (states the New Zealand Times):
Mr G. W. Watt, chief engineer of the illfated Port Kembia, who is at present in Wellington, is a survivor of the Port Adelaide, sunk early this year.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3316, 3 October 1917, Page 49
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