NEWS IN BRIEF
At a clearing sale of a dairy herd at Martinborough 63 cows made an avage of £2O 12/6. A lady resident of Martinborough? has been licensed as a land and estate agent. Lambs, the first of the season, were to be seen the other day on Mr George Finch’s farm at Kaitangata. The recent heavy seas have scoured away part of the retaining wall at the northern end of Caroline Bay. The Southland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board has written off hospital maintenance accounts: totalling £725. Masterton tradesmen are already complaining of loss of business through the restrictions of the railway traffic. Diphtheria is again prevalent in Greymouth, Blackball, and Runanga. Several adults are also laid down with chicken pox. Of the two cases of lethargic encephalitis at Ashburton, one is reported to be making, fair progress, while the ether is slowly improving. The annual report of the Waihi Gold Mining Company gives the corrected returns from the company’s mine to the end of 1918 as £12,460,312. It is a curious fact, noted by the instructors at Trentham, that most New Zealand youths are bad walkers. They walk without spring, and have not learned the proper use of the foot in the propulsion of the body. The residents of Coutts Island, Kaiapoi, have erected a handsome stone pillar as a memorial to the five sol- / diers from the island who made the supreme sacrifice in the great The unveiling ceremony took place a few days ago. The public are taking full advantage of the high prices., ruling for rabbit skins. Mr Andrew/ Wilson had to close his doors on three occasions on Saturday (states the Southland News); tirer number of clients being so great. : ’He' bought about' £IOOO 'worth of rabbitskins that day. “I do not like it going out in the press that the Minister is responsible for the suggestion for hot cocoa being given to children at the schools at noon,” stated Mr Oates at the last Hawke’s Bay Education Board meeting. “‘lt has been done for 20 years at some of the Hawke’s Bay schools.” The explosion whereby the house occupied by the senior sergeant of police in Greymouth was damaged, is the subject of an announcement by the Minister of Justice. This is to the effect that, since the damage is believed to have been caused by some person or persons unknown, a reward for information leading to the arrest of such person or persons, of an amount of £2OO, is now offered. An area of 9981 acres of land will be opened for selection this month, and next month another 113,147 acres will be available for selections l in ’ various parts of the dominion. The Crown Lands Guide contains particulars of 701,755 acres already open for selection. Two and a half million feet of timber in the Longwood survey district, Invercargill, are to be offered.
In. regard to tlip working of the Bluff cool store, the secretary reported to a meeting of the Harbour Board oni Friday that, since the last meeting, when there were 40,000 crates in store, only 229 crates had been received, though receipt of cheese at the store had to be stopped on June 27 to enable the shipment by the Pakeha to be loaded out. The shipment was completed on July 5, being 19,995 crates still in store on that date. There was no mention of any further shipment as yet.
Once more Patea’s prospects of an ironsand industry at that port are on the wane. It will be remembered (says the Hawera Star) that a year or two ago Mr Heskett secured rights over certain ironsand areas, and erected small works near the Patea bridge at which the ironsand was to be treated under a new process. A few promising-looking ingots of pigiron were turned out, but smelting operations then ceased, and the chairman of the, Harbour Board states that all the machinery has now been removed from the building. The board, however, retains all brickwork, etc.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Waipa Post, Volume XII, Issue 826, 31 July 1919, Page 1
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