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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17950, 30 November 1932, Page 5

Afr. B. Hayes, Woodville, met with a serious accident, resulting in the loss ol his left eve, while working on a farm near Hamilton. He was cutting a barberry hedge, when a thorn entered the optic. Caught in a southerly squall early on Saturday evening, two men whose dinghy was upset off Ward Island, Wellington harbor, bad a narrow escape from drowning. Both were picked nip in an exhausted condition by Mr W. 11. Meyers, of Aliramar, who, .on bearing that a boat bad been upset, went in search of its occupants in bis fishing launch. The durability of timber for fencing purposes has often been discussed by farmers, arid it is generally conceded that the native puriri takes first place. An example of the life of the puriri can he seen in many of the older settled farming localities. Recently an elcaguus hedge which had overgrown a fence at Judea, Tauranga, was cleared off and revealed the original post and rail fem e which had been built over 50 years ago. The timtei is slill sound and appears to have many years of usefulness.