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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 126, 25 February 1928, Page 21

Smouldering silently in U ’° Lake St. John, Tamaki, a. peat hie as continued for some time, and wildl diwk in this part of the sanctuary to take the precaution oto nest near the wat -j . k j where they are out of danger (says the Auckland “Star”). The b "™./iJen was reclaimed when a tunnel was dmen through the ridge, towards the sen to lower the waters of the lake, with * . to dbveliping the locality in the fu as Waiatarua Park. As there is a bilitv of a sports ground being forme to serve tho needs of. the Remuem an other residential districts, it is sugge“‘ that the loss of the peat will he much regretted Abbots Way. which runs fiom Eadies’ Mile towards Panmure, 19 J 0 ”?” ed across the peal at o,"® p swamp is burnin" on both sides or clay roadway. Should it hum undernenth, the surface is likelv to gne way.

A remarkable mishap oecurred.at Kaiti the other afternoon (says the lowrr Bay Herald”). A lady motorist, tinned sharply from one street into h" As the car swung round thc CO J? I ®F door opened and a Vinhy w a9 prostrate on to the hard rondw- . ~ motorist, unaware of the mish-p, 1 • needed uninterruptedly, oblivions to cries of (lie iniurerl infant. Fortuna c - . a vonng man cvclist observed ie .K' ■ dent, and by d’nt of shouting and " ‘ lint-, succeeded in attracting 'he la’, motorist’s attention, but not '’“fore she had travelled some distance 3he child when picked nn was a good deal bruised and shaken by the fall.