NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3704, 15 October 1927, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

A long and arduous trip to hospital was made by a six-year-old boy of Okura, a small settlement 'l2O miles south of Hokitika, after he had broken one of his arms in a fall from a runaway horse. The journey was accomplished in 26£ hours. The boy was conveyed from Okura to Haast in a one-wheeled ambulance stretcher, and the next morning was taken on horseback, at a walking pace only, for about 55 miles to Bruce Bay Beach, where the party was met by a motor-car and conveyed to Hokitika. The treacherous streams', Ivarangarua and Cook’s Rivers, with their rough boulder-bottoms, and without a single guiding pole or mark of any description were negotiated at night with amazing accuracy, and without the slightest hitch. An exhibit which excited interest and amusement reposed on the table for the inspection of members at a recent meeting of the Canterbury Progress League. It was a board which had been removed from a petrol case, one of the consignment purchased by a member of the League, Mr G. Maeginness, and which bore the following message,

written in indelible pencil:—“We won the war and saved the British Islands from defeat and extinction. Now, I guess, you buy our oil. Z. Hoppeltheim.” Above this inscription was an address in California. “I suggest that the League should expend three and sixpence, or thereabouts, on a small volume called ‘The Square. Deal,’ by Owen Wister, and send it to the writer of this message,” said the chairman, Mi 1 G. M. Hall. The members of the executive smiled broadly at the incident. “We should not take it too seriously,” said one. “No, Ido not think we are,” rejoined another.