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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17946, 25 November 1932, Page 9

The total loss of Ilawera by dire last year amounted to only £566. ■The estimated loss covered' by insurance was £534. The insurances on properties on which fires occurred totalled £7325, .the estimated value of the properties being £10,230. Serious damage- was suffered lust eovning by one of the. Gisborne Rowing Club's four-oar craft, whe.tr in use by a crow in training for the. President ’s Fours series. The boat,, one of a pair purchased about two years ago from ‘McPherson, of Dunedin, a well-known Notv Zealander builder, struck a snag just off the channel, within '2ooyds- of the Roebuck bridge. The snag, was almost submerged, and the. coxswain had tho sun in his eyes, these circumstances cxplainuing why, the. obstruction was not seen prior to the crash’* The uppermost part of the stake entered the shell of the boat, 'penetrating ;onc of the streaks- for a distance of over Ift., and then emerging, to pinch the planking along the line/ of! the keelson from the bow scat to the stroke’s. Tho boat was placed under re-pair to-day, and should bo commission again in a day or two; though the repairs involve a delicate job for the joiner in charge,