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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1577, 22 November 1924, Page 4

A man named Charles Eklund, aged fifty years, fell into the Wellington harbour from a wharf yesterday, and was drowned (states a Press Association message). 1

The tax on any motor vehicle (other than a motor cycle) taken temporarily into Switzerland is now one krona for each day or part thereof. A krona equals 14.7 d. “ I have always found the Board’s officials most prompt,” was the remark of a member of the TeiAwamutu Power Board when a complaint was read from a Pokuru settler whose milking plant had become dislocated and all usual steps to obtain the assistance of a Power Board expert had failed, causing 'the settler to hand milk his herd. The Board’s foreman reported on the matter, showing that the fault was a blown fuse, which every consumer 'is shown how t.o renew. The remarks quoted at the beginning of this paragraph were supplemented in similar strain .■ by other members. The particular sufferer in the case under review was sympathised with, but the Board could not hold its em-; ployee blameworthy for the alleged' neglect. ...