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Waipukurau Press, Volume XIV, Issue 45, 19 April 1930, Page 5

There was an exceptionally large number of anglers fishing in the Luki Tuki river yesterday, and several instances of fair catches have been reported. The best sport was met with near Patangata, but the growth of green weed is still causing fishermen a good deal of trouble. ‘A glimpse of the extent to which the coal strike affected Australia is given by an experience I had during my visit there,” said a New Zealander wTio returned from Australia recently. “I rode in the cab of S3ffo, one of the biggest locomotives in the world, which hauls trains on the road to Adelaide. This engine, which attains a speed of seventy miles per hour on the flat between Broadford and Tallerook, was not being run with Australian coal. I asked the driver if he had Westport coal on board. ‘I wish I had,’ he said. ‘I used it in the Navy. This engine is being run on Yorkshire coal.’ To continue the railway services coal had to be brought 12,000 miles.” In the poorer parts of the diocese of Southwark, London, there is one curate for every 12,000 persons.