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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5504, 22 November 1929, Page 2

An indication of the satisfactory season experienced by Hauraki Plains farmers is afforded by one of the cheese factories which is now manufacturing a little less cheese than at this time last year, but with eight less suppliers.

Messrs C. Rhodes, New Zealand director of the Waihi Gold Mining Company, R. E. Williams, the company’s consulting engineer, and R. C. Milligan, manager of the New Zealand Mines Trust, are visitors to Waihi. Mr Williams, who has been on a visit to the Old Country, only recently returned to New Zealand.

Stone masons have been at work during the past day or two restoring the Seddon Memorial monument at the intersection of Seddon and Haszard streets, Waihi, which for some years has been in a somewhat dilapidated state (says the Waihi Telegraph). The iron gaslight pole has been taken down and replaced by a granite pedestal in keeping with the ornamental columns at the corners of the monument, and the ornaments surmounting these, two of which had been broken, are now being repaired. In place of the old style gas lights a large globe light will crown the pedestal, and the lettering on the tablets referring to the late Rt. Hon. R. J. Seddon, Prime Minister of New Zealand from May 1, 1893, to June 21, 1906, will be renewed. Apart from the fact that the granite pedestal to carry the lamp is rather squat, the monument, when restored, should be more pleasing to the eye than formerly.