MERCER.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 71, 18 August 1915, Page 4

MERCER.

A contract to supply ten million feet of timber to a Sydtuy firm has been accepted by the United Timber Company. The order will be supplied in shipment* of 600,000 feet every four months. A plant is being installed for the Company at Mangawara to saw logs into sufficiently small sizes so that they may be floated down the river during the summer months when the stream is low. Two more launches have been added to the already large flotilla of vessels trading on the Waikato river under the flag of the AllBritish Company, aod will be kept for special hire purposes, one being moored at the wharf at all times when it is not in service.

trom enquiries made by the Police Departxent the name of the Bailor who was drowned off the s.s. Freetrader in the Waikato River some few weeks back has been ascertained as that of Joseph King. Amongst deceased's belongings was a razor which was the clue to his identity being disclosed. It was traced to be the piopcrty of a farmer residing at Ohauga, worth Auckland, who knew deceased as Joseph King. Further information collected by the police shows that deceased was 30 years of age and an orphan. He was a nephew of Mr E. Flynn, of the Thames and of Mr Burke, contractor, of Auckhnd, and had followed the occupation of a seaman. The Waikato River Board office is undenting a thorough overhaul, and alterations are to be made to allow for office accommodation for Messrs J. C. and P. E. Dromgool, solicitors, who intend visiting Mercer on the second and fourth Saturdays in each month. Mr and Mrs Gallery leave Auckland on the 23rd inst. on a visit to Mr Gallery's broher-in-iaw, Dr R. C. E. Atkinson, port health officer at Perth, Western Australia. They will be accompanied by their daughters, the Misses E. N. and K. M. Gallery. Miss Hilda Gallery, who has been resident in Australia for the past two years, will return to New Zealand with, her parents. Mr Gallery intends seeing the Melbourne Cup run. It is evident that from the enquiries mace for building sections in Mercer that if they were procurable the population would be increased. An order was left with a builder to procure a section at a certain price and to erect a dwelling on it, tut unfortunately for the builder the value placed on the section was 50 per cent more than the proposed purchaser was prepared to pay.