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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16170, 5 July 1923, Page 6

"I know he was drunk, because he (Same home in a taxi," said a woman who took proceedings against her husband in tho Magistrate's Court at Wanganui, "If he had been sober ho would have come home by a tramcar." The lengthy period of rainy weather which has been experienced in Auckland has been tho despair of the amateur t;urdener. For months almost there bus not been a week-end that has been entirely free from rain, and tho ground has now become so sodden as to bo almost unworkable. A powerful steam shovel and a locomotive were Landed at Taupiro by punt from Tauranga last week for use of the Public, Works Department in connection with the construction of the Waihi-Katikati section of tho East Coast, railway line. The shovel, when in commission, will materially facilitate, excavation work at the various cuttings, and the locomotive will bo used for hauling spoil from the steam navvy working !in the Tithawai station yard tho other side of Tuapiro. "What is wanted is the adoption of a : roally progressive policy," declared the j .Mayor of Cambridge a few days ago at ! a conference of local bodies held to coni sider tho procuring of up-to-date road ; making plant. Supplies of metal brought in from outside district, he stated, cost £1 per yard landed at Cambridge. If , Morrinsvillo could raise loans and was optimistic enough to spend £60,000, and was again raising a further loan of £40,000, Cambridge should not be apprehensive. It was the centre of one of tho best districts in Auckland.

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