The Timaru Borough Council at their meeting last night, appointed Mr D. Walton, clerk of works, m connocuoii with the underground diaiuago work now in progress here. Dr. R. G. Shackleton, late assistant bacteriologist and lecturer at the Medical School. Dunedin, left on Saturday for Wellington, where he will join tw ss Rotorua, which leaves lor Englaim tiiis week. Dr. Shackletou purpo.-s gaining further medical experience m London and Edinburgh. “From inquiries T made while in Taranaki, that talk about 12 or )i3 mortgages on farms is all ‘bunkum stated a Mastorton commensal man. “Those in the position to know ssv fours are numerous, but fives are ab mi tlio extreme.” He added that a very loan time is being experienced ihe-.-e, and a general tone of pessimism provails.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 24 June 1924, Page 7
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