THAMES NEWS.
(Per Press Association.)
Thames, last nigh
The timber export industry is growing briske'. The barqus Laira has just sailed with 530,000 foot of wbito pino for Melbourne. The barquontino Handa Isle and Selwyn C a g are lialiug t mbrr for Austra'iaa ports. Tbo barquent’ne lima txpoct.’d at any moment will load for Sydney. Considerable attention is no\y being paid to Thames m'iamg p qperlios. Soms inquiries are loing oitdo from representatives in Louden cf cxp'oa'iou companies. If is hoped sjstfmHtc prospeetpg an! development of (he talk country will result. Tile ‘cjun'ry is iioh in vfirqas minera's. Al uviq.l gold bar bean found in phc. s Prep irat ons are well in band for the commencement of tbo impoitaot wotk of diainage of the Pitln swamp lands. Soooe Na ive owners are conferring with tbe object of allowing a large area of land to be settled on.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1685, 28 February 1906, Page 2
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149THAMES NEWS. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1685, 28 February 1906, Page 2
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