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Otago Witness, Issue 3829, 2 August 1927, Page 11

The Stewart Island correspondent of the Southland News sends the following interesting news item: —Doughboy Bay, one of the most inaccessible bays of Stewart Island, now has a permanent resident. Last month Mr Adam Adamson, of ambergris fame, was landed there with equipment and stores to last; six months. A cargo of building timber was to follow, but so far the weather has not been suitable to risk visiting this exposed quarter. In the meantime Mr Adamson has made a temporary home in a tine sheltered cave which he discovered well back from the beach. This cave had evidently been used in the early days by sealers and whalers, as numerous initials and indistinct names are cut into the stone walls. In bygone days the Maoris made a yearly expedition to Diughboy Bay to collect lampreys, which are numerous there in their season. The council of the New Zealand Pig Breeders’ Association at the meeting at Palmerston North on Thursday regretted the inaction of the Meat Board in regard to the pork Industry, but, in view of the decision at yesterday’s conference of the produceix, it was decided to do nothing beyond thanking the Primo Minister for what he has done for the producers, and express the hope that he wculd continue to be sympathetic.