FORTY YEARS AGO

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3261, 10 May 1943, Page 3

FORTY YEARS AGO

TOO MANY MONGERELS KARANGAHAKE NUISANCE ACCIDENT ON JUNCTION WHARF (From the Ohinemuri Gazette of May 10, 1903)

Karangahake residents will be pleased to learn that the dog registrar has been instructed to destroy unregistered dogs in that township. • The number of mongrels. roaming about Karangahake has for a long time past been a nuisance, and probably the registrar will now take steps to shoot or otherwise destroy a lot of them. The return from the Komata Reefs Co. for the four weeks

ending April 25 was £2900 from 1087 tons of ore treated. This is an improvement upon .the previous month’s output, which was £2500 from 10'20 tons. The total output from the Komata Reefs Co.. to date now. amount to £80,988.

A very nasty accident happened to a young man named John McHale at the Junction wharf on Wednesday afternoon. It appears that while he was removing a large flywheel he got caught against some timber and it fell over hjn leg, breaking the bone badly just below the knee. McHale was thrown off the wharf into the river, and also had a narrow escape from drowning. Dr. Buckby was called and soon arrived on the scene, and did all that was possible to relieve the sufferer. The accident occurred too late to send the patient down by the evening train, so a conveyance was procured and the sufferer was driven to the Thames Hospital by Mr D. Potts.