A BIG DROP.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20178, 5 March 1931, Page 9

A BIG DROP.

NAPIER'S POPULATION. V —WO***# J TOTAL OP 5700. * J'jj-'.'iV •* v " i<f * "*" (run WMunnf 'maeiut.) NAFTBB, St*Mh 4* Boasting of, A pppnlation of Over 19,000 a. few weefca ago, Napier now has 5700 citteens, accotdJttg to the legislations. oa Febtuary 21st the total was 8300. The predenji total inalndes 570 nonresidents and. al»9fis,4(lo,#fl"n * plaofta on the otttaldrts. ffc«« , . about* eight Women .to every handled tfowfce's Pay Meat Company hope to reirttmo killing matton and lamb at Whakatu at the end of this month or *Atl? l& Ap>U. • -In the meantime the company, besides , sons, Ltd. (Tomoana), and ■ , (Pflfei Paki), ate arranging f(jy i ®« in » elsewhere on clients' aiteottht, .B? eI hilling is impossibly «t pfeseflt. , OcWeyWofttlwif. . . vf l . The weather has taien a decidedly cold tpm, which makeft living conditions - without fjfes linplettsank '■ *® s "< tosrday's f&in fortunately stopjfea tarfly, ! but tie conditions f ttfiJlg ate 1 raising. Heavy rttn wM#ilB(J erable flilcomfa't. „ Ninety.eight teams,ana scoops are •working on tie tivpt }janK& down fey the eafthqtf&feq, <. • ■ *■ All branehas of the £os| <s«c»,are , beitur }n -the ~HAjvfogS street school, and tempbrfiry >P®fW|e» - are being ittshfid Hp* ' d : '*• Tour htmdJfid men are reported; »n* employed. Staploytfl*, ia BBnie jases, have Napittf mtiiL consequently- : *ttWf« s ; , ~ Jma u v E6pairs to hottsefl, etc-j tfgltfftv t. ing a greater task than irte attifitp^d-. ; Many roofs ate jrtill ehowi^g t gaping - h '^ ! j^ttafch', A conference of representatives, the River Board and was Held V rain would cause *m abnonrfftl" TO®"*, and the VP* at designed to send the T lo*w damage wodWlAfflfc . ieJi getting t back btfof* ti# Wft to-morrow if tyti to &Mim ptQtwti+ft S^Pdr<T «ntthqtww. - r v khotk tIA floto 9i aM fa«t. tow { proved that tM >

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