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Otago Witness, Issue 3828, 26 July 1927, Page 69

It is stated that 24 railway wagons were necessary to convey the belongings of two families who intend to take up farming at Putaruru, and that the freight bill ran to £2OO (says the Auckland Star). As a contrast. it is mentioned that some of the pioneers who took up land in that district arrived with little more than the clothes that they stood in, and a well-established farmer recalls that he once travelled with his worldly belongings tied up in a Handkerchief. . , . , i Apparently overcome in his sleep by the fumes from a smouldering fire in the mattress and bed pillow, a young man occupying a single room in tha Princes Boarding-house, Hawera, was discovered in a stupefied condition during the early hours recently, when a fellow boarder, aroused by the smell of burning cloth, made an inspection of the room. The fire in the bed clothing was extinguished without an. alarm being raised, and the rescued sleeper revived in a short while after t being taken into the open air.