DOMINION NEWS.
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) A REQUEST DECLINED. MASTER.TOX, July 20. R. J. Barton who applied to the '.Scenery Preservation Board on behalf of Whakataki natives to have Whnreponri’s mark on Whakataki beach protected, has received a reply from the Board to the effect that the spot is not considered of sufficient historical interest to justify protection. Wliarepouri’s mark is a sandstone pillar erected in 1842 to signify peace between Mokau natives, who were then in possession of Wellington and who had invaded Wairarapa. and tribes of the East Coast wjlio had been driven to seek protection of tlie Hawke's Bay tribes.
RECORD RAINFALL. WAIHAT. July 20. For twenty-four hours ended at giglit 'filiis morning eight inches of rain fell constituting a record for the time. Ohinemuri river and creeks overflowed the hanks and the main Waihi-Pneroa road for a short stretch was five feet under water. Apart from flooding the gas works, no material damage was done in town.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1927, Page 3
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161DOMINION NEWS. Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1927, Page 3
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