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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5029, 20 September 1926, Page 2

The. Piako Rive.r is very lo.w< at the present time. On Friday last the’s.s. Hauiti became stuck near the. mouth of the Puhanga canal.

The Hauraki Plains, school dental officer, Mr F. G. Stockwell, has received instructions from Wellington to visit the Native school at Opoutere, hear Tairua, On his return the Kaihere. and Patetonga school children will receive further treatment.

A by-law which will shortly be, brought into force l in the Cook County relates to the use of chains by motor vehicles during the winter. It is proposed that the use of chains should be prohibited altogether on continuous metal roads (reports, the. Poverty Bay Herald), and that no chajns greater than 121 b in weight should be allowed to be used on any roads in the colunty. It is probable that a definite date for the enforcement of this by-law will be fixed next council meeting.

The Otago Hospital Board has been advised that the six bags of ashes which arc supposed. to contain the. radium lost a while ago. have reached. England and have been sent to Belgium for treatment by the Oolen plant in the hope of discovering the lost radium, says the Otago Daily Times.. Although of the value of frota £l5O to £lBo,' this radium is less in bulk than 10 milliigrammes. When in use. it was encased in a tube half an inch long and about the thickness of a pencil. In appearance the precious metal may be likene.d to the tip of a gramophone needle. Tn the. meantime a new atom of equal scientific value; ha.s bee.n procured for use in Dunedin. If the missing radium is. sifted out the board will be credited with the money value remaining after expenses are paid.

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