THIRD EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume Li, Issue 16894, 26 November 1925, Page 11

THIRD EDITION.

A good supply of fresh water lias been found on White Island by sinking a shaft. It will by of inestimable value to the workmen.

A girl of ten, Molly Matheson, da ugh ter of Mr 1). Matheson, Hamilton East, lost tiie index linger of one hand by placing it between the blades of a pair of hedge clippers a companion was holding.

There is no exaggeration in the statement that Hastings and the surrounding district is at present "bone dry.” It is, in fact, many years sinec the ground has been as hard and dry as it is just now.—Napier Telegraph.

A suggestion has been made by a district Settler, who formerly resided in Ireland, that the Waikato land is admirably suited for the growing of linl. from which the world-famous Irish linen is manufactured.

The freezing works in Hastings are now in full swing, and despite the poorness of the season, all hands are finding plenty to do. Jf is estimated that 11io three works employ in the vicinity of 1000 hands nt the height of Lhc'season, so it can he realised what a great boon the works are to Hastings. Prisoners are to build a Spiral roadway to the top of Rangitoto, at Auckland. The road is to lie constructed as u result of representations made to the Minister of Justice* by the Rangitoto Domain Board, which has completed arrangements for housing, equipment and transport of food supplies. ’I he idea is to devolon Rangitoto as a scenic asset.

Few men in Whangarei have been accorded the representative funeral that marked the interment at the Maunu cemetery of the late Colonel C. E. 11. Mackesv. He was one of the finest men who left- the district for the Great War. and his unquestioned gameness and sympathy was such that he was looked to by ex-soldiers as a great comrade. The cortege included all ranks. In any of the towns visited by the Australian Scottish Ladies’ Pipe Band, the hospitals are visited and programmes given for the benefit of the sick. This afternoon the band visited the Old People’s Home and the Hospital. The Indies were driven in cars lent by Mrs S. McDonald, and Messrs A. E. Bilcliff, iM. Kvnc, Williams, 0. B. Oman and 11. 11. Dc Costa.

A suction dredge at Whangarei bar-' bor has worked with little lost time during the past month and has completed two-thirds of the Portland”C'hannel dredging. The quantity of spoil removed and pumped ashore was 30,000 cubic yards, the cost per yard being just under Is 2d. Considering the hard and tough nature of the material met with, the progress made was satisfactory.

It is hoped that everyone will wear alt Alexandra rose on Saturday in memory of the QueCn Mother. The fiowers" were made by crippled children to the Queen’s order, and each rose has her initial “A" stamped on a petal. The flowers will he on sate to children outside the schools on Friday afternoon at Id each, or a bunch for 3d. All money received, will go to childrens welfare in Gisborne, probably to a cot in the hospital in memory of ‘ Alexandra, our Queen Mother.”

Ail Up-to-date feature of the Otago District Court, the walls of which are built of Oainaru stone, is a working model of a. dredge pumping silt into old Lake Logan. Visitors are thus able to visualise the nature ol the work that took place during the last three years in the reclamation of the ground upon which the buildings stand. -Even the framework model of tlie first of the buildings, the construction of which was started before the reclamation was fully complete, is contained in the model. The. development of Orakei Garden Suburb at Auckland, states the Herald, depends in large measure upon direct means of access, yet the Government, which owns the land and lias accepted a design for the lay-out of the block on towli-planniilg lines, has not announced whether it will share in the cost of the proposed waterfront boulevard which would bring the Orakei suburb within four miles of Queen street by a level, modem highway. The plans and proposals for construction of this great waterfront roadway were placed before the Government by the Auckland City Council early this year, when Cabinet was asked to consider a contribution of one-third- of the cost, which is estimated at approximately £300,003, hut so far the local authorities concerned ave still in doubt as to the Government's intentions.