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Otago Witness, Issue 3854, 24 January 1928, Page 17

Portable items of the Wharcongaonga quarry equipment, are being shipped to Gisborne for overhaul and storage as opportunity offers, and recently the air-com-pressor machine, designed for use with the pneumatic drills in break-ins; up large blocks of stone, was . landed at the Kaiti wharf from the scow. Zingara (reports a Poverty Bay exchange). This machine is an expensive detail of equipment which, however, would have paid for itself in savings of time and labour had the quarry produced stone which, required breaking' down. There are several heavy pieces of machinery, .such as cranes and the steam navvy, which have been repainted and covered. to prevent damage by weather and which still remain at the quarry site’ 1 The Harbour Board, staff is under instructions to draw up a list of such machinery as will not be required under the present scheme of harbour development, in view of the possibility of realisation. \ ' i '

... “Just like a-man! You say I am over-dressed- because I have 23 dresses, and when I wear one of them you say I have pot enough on! ” —Journal Amusant. Paris.

The establishment of the Nelson office of the New Zealand Tourist Bureau is considered to be more than justified (says an exchange). The business transacted during the last month of 1527 showed a substantial increase over that of' the preceding year.

Recent at the High Commissioner’s office (states our London correspondent,- writing' on December 14) have included Mr and Mrs C. H. Morrall, jun., and Miss H. M. Laing, of Dunedin.