LOCAL & GENERAL
We have received to-day an interesting photo from Air. George Nelson of the Rhine Hoods during last September. The view is taken from a hill above Buchs in Switzerland looking down the valley. From Buchs downwards the Rhine bed is dry for a' distance of ten miles. The river has carved out a new channel through the little principality of Leicbtenstein. At the time of writing he was with his friend Carl Bohe, the eminent engineer in charge of the work of putting the river back to its proper course.
On Friday a start was made on the electrification of the Christchur. - Lyttelton railway line, the first poles to carry the overhead wires being placed m position.
The Hastings High School will “break up” on December 15. The annual ceremony will be conducted out-of-doors this year when the pupils will give a display of drill, country dances and singing. The function will be held on the school grounds.
A proclamation by the GovernorGeneral in the Gazette further extends to January 10. 1929. the period during which the notes issued by the six banks doing business in New Zealand are declared to be legal tender.
The usual committee meeting of the Mahora Swimming Club was held last Tuesday night in the 'schoolroom. Present: Mr. W. Horne (chair), Misses Lande'is and McLeod, Messrs. Wise, Lassen, Arroll, Hearn, Simeon, McLeod and Tayler. Three new members were proposed. A gold medal was donated for competition in the ladies’ race, to be swum for each carnival night, the winner to hold the medal for one week.
A leading Wellington philatelist informed a “Dominion’’ reporter that the statement that there were only 16 copies of the rare first New Zuiland penny stamp in existence was not correct, for ho said there are at least two other pairs and 12 sirgl. copies of this stamp in the Domini' n. The catalogue price is £6O each. He said tlAt there were well over ICO copies scattered amongst the world's collectors, and he considered that the value of £l5O, placed upon them by Mr. A. Brodie, the Auckland dealer who secured them, a fair one if that pair was in fine condition. It is probable that had there only been the number stated the price would have been nearer £lOOO instead of £6O per copy. Two other philatelists concurred in the expert's opinion.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 1 December 1927, Page 4
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396LOCAL & GENERAL Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 1 December 1927, Page 4
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