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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4703, 26 May 1924, Page 3

The damage inflicted by heavy traffic to the Eltham County roads, and the apparent ignoring by motorists of cautioning notices, was discussed at a meeting of the council, when councillors told of motor lorries carrying as much as four cords of firewood thundering down by-roads and motors ists dashing across old wooden bridges at from 35 to 50 miles an hour (states the “Hawera Star”).. It was decided, to make strenuous efforts to bring offenders to book, the chairman stating that both the county ranger and engineer would be on the watch, and the county clerk would be anxiously waiting to issue a summons in the shortest possible time. ••The sheep of to-day in New Zea-; land are entirely different, from a wool point of view, from what they were 14 years ago,’’ said Mr J. Cooke in the course of a lecture to farmers at the Farmers’ School in Timaru (states an exchange). This difference he attributed to the well-directed efforts of sheepowners who had done so much to improve the wool-produc-ing qaulities of the flocks of the Do-, minion.