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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 30 July 1924, Page 8

Speaking at a function given to celebrate forty-five years connection as solicitor to the Waipara County Council, Mr. George Harper mentioned some interesting historical points in the development of local bodies. Inter alia he said that in 1.863 or 1864 the Road Boards Act was first passed by the Provincial Government, but it was not until 1872 that a workable Road Boards Act had been passed. That legislation had been taken from a splendid old English Act which had been passed in the reign of William IV. and which now went under the name not of the Highways Act but of “the” Act, and with only a couple of amendments this Act was in force until the present day. With the coming of the Comity Councils Act the law had been amended almost yearly up to the present day, and it was a marvel to him that the county clerks and local authorities had been able to keep up to all these amendments, but they had done so. The ill-fated Mount Everest expedition had a stamp issue of its own. One of these has reached Ashburton (states the Guardian). The stamp is of a light blue colour, with a clear-cut view of Mount Everest in its centre, and the names Sikkim. Tibet, and Nepal. 1924. round its border. It is reported that only about 700 stamps have been issued. The stamps were used by members of the'expedition on special greeting cards, which have as a frontispiece a view of the mountain from the base camp in the Rongbuk Valley, Tibet. The cards were dispatched by postal runner 'to India. :