New Zealand rivers are > frequently, a cause of anxiety to riparian owners,' owing to the erosion of the banks arising or the current of the river chang-,. ing its course. Mr. Monro, of Palmerston,' applied for a patont.for control-: . Uhg the current of a river; and this, application was opposed by Mr. Bae-( nail. Mr; 0. B. Morison, K.O, and' 'Mr. Baldwin (Baldwin and Rayward)-, appeared for Mr. Monro, and Mr\, lioughnan for Mr. Bagnall. The resting invention consists of a screen mads, of bars resting at one end on the bed -, of the river, and suspended at their other end to a boom. The case was argued at length, and the Registrar decided 'to reserve his decision, which will be given in writing. _ The annual picnic of ' the staff of ■ The Dominion is to be held at Days. I Bay to-morrow. ,': • . : Mr. Henry Baker, who .has • been, headmastor. of Eton National Sohool tor more than 35 years, has rotired. Mr. Baker was formerly one of the ten small boys who led the singiug m Itoa College 'Chapol 'on Sunday mornings, yielding their places to St. Georges. Chapel choir in the afternoons He was a scholar at Eton National School. ,-. and became a pupil teacher there, and afterwards headmaster.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3041, 30 March 1917, Page 4
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209Untitled Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3041, 30 March 1917, Page 4
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